1850s Kansas: A Free-Stater's Domestic Struggle

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Bleeding Kansas Catherine is a mother in the 1850’s living on the border of Kansas as a free-stater. Everyday she devotes her time to making sure the house is ship-shape. She works on sewing clothes for her fast growing children, and then spends hours making food so she can keep her family’s bellies full and their faces smiling. Today as she finished her long list of daily chores and began to make dinner, she remembered that her husband said he will be coming home a little late. So she decided to sit down with her three rambunctious, hungry children (all under the age of ten) and eat without him. Just as she got the children to settle down and started to say the blessing on the food-Bam! Bam! Bam! What happened? Without hesitation she grabbed …show more content…

Mullis states, One of the most basic expectations regarding the army as a whole was the subordination of the military power to civilian authority. American fears of military usurpation of civil liberties or the use of the army for political repression were aroused once again during Bleeding Kansas. (23) People were left to their own devices, and began taking law and order into their own hands. They began to sue for their rights that were not given to them even after the constitutional promises were made. People began to be more familiar with bloody deeds and horrific acts that eventually led into the Civil War, but was currently known as Bleeding Kansas. Sarah Bell, a Ph. D. student at the University of Kansas …show more content…

On May 24-25 1856 John Brown, five of his sons, and three other anti-slavery activists went along with him to the bank of the Pottawatomie Creek. They want to different cabins and murdered five proslavery men, This horrible act was encouraged by a sacking that had been an attack on an anti-slavery town names Lawrence. Also previously, a representative of South Carolina, Preston Brooks, performed a vicious attack on Charles Sumner on the floor of the US Senate. Charles was beaten by Brookes because of his passion for anti-slavery. Even with the violent acts that John Brown committed, the Southern Democrat, Stephen A. Douglas lost huge amounts of popularity. He was not helping his people in stopping these horrific acts and the people lost faith in

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