Civil War Question
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What earned the territory of Kansas the name "bleeding Kansas"?
- Slave owners in the territory had a reputation for badly mistreating their slaves.
- Residents of the territory fought over whether or not Kansas should join the Union.
- Proslavery and antislavery forces fought violently over whether Kansas would be a free state or a slaveholding state.
- The territory lost a large number of soldiers during the Mexican-American War.