What event started “bleeding kansas”?

use the chart and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question.

causes of the civil war

long-term causes:

- sectional economic and cultural differences

- debate over expansion of slavery into the territories

- political compromises failed to ease sectional differences and resolve questions of expanding slavery

· missouri compromise (1820)
· compromise of 1850
· kansas-nebraska act (1854)

- laws increased sectional tension

· fugitive slave act (1850)
· dred scott decision
· tariff policy

- growth of the anti-slavery movement

- uncle tom’s cabin

short-term causes:

- kansas-nebraska act splits political parties

- breakdown of the party system

- lincoln elected president

- south carolina secedes

a. border ruffians raided the anti-slavery town of lawrence, kansas.

b. preston brooks beat charles sumner unconscious with a cane.

c. charles sumner delivered a speech called “the crime against kansas.”

d. john brown carried out midnight executions of pro-slavery settlers.