The conflict over whether Kansas would be admitted to the Union as a free or slave state earned the name "Bleeding Kansas." What was the major event that started the violence? Choose 1 answer: Choose 1 answer: A Proslavery militias crossed into Northern states and murdered abolitionists. B A major slave revolt led by Nat Turner killed more than 60 whites. C Anti-slavery activist John Brown organized the murder of five proslavery settlers.

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The conflict over whether Kansas would be admitted to the Union as a free or slave state earned the name "Bleeding Kansas." What was the major event that started the violence? Choose 1 answer: Choose 1 answer: A Proslavery militias crossed into Northern states and murdered abolitionists. B A major slave revolt led by Nat Turner killed more than 60 whites. C Anti-slavery activist John Brown organized the murder of five proslavery settlers.

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Karsyn Soto · Answer 1

It would be A. Many proslavery militias crossed to Kansas to vote in Kansas to allow slavery. In the process they targeted abolitionists and the bloody conflict became known as bleeding Kansas. John brown lead an attack on Harpers Ferry (not in Kansas). And Nat Turner lead the revolt in Virginia.