[DOC] [TLE] Bleeding Kansas - Wikipedia [PAR] Bleeding Kansas, Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a series of violent 
political ... Among the first immigrants to Kansas Territory were citizens of slave 
states, ... in November 1854, thousands of armed pro-slavery men known as "
Border ... To help countermand the voting fraud, by the summer of 1855 around 
1,200 New... [DOC] [TLE] Bleeding Kansas and the Missouri Border War - Timeline of Events [PAR] Chronology of Bleeding Kansas and the Missouri Border War. ... Pro-slavery 
Missourians flooded the state to vote, where armed pro-slavery advocates ... 
October 7, 1855 ... John Brown, along with forty other men defended the town, but 
in the end, ... bloodshed and compound the growing frustration leading to the 
Civil War. [DOC] [TLE] Violence disrupts first Kansas election - Mar 30, 1855 - HISTORY.com [PAR] In territorial Kansas' first election, some 5,000 so-called Border Ruffians ... of 
votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters in the territory, Kansas ... 
Reeder reluctantly approved the election to prevent further bloodshed. ... Free 
State force under John Brown massacred five pro-slavery Kansans along the ... 
Lead Story. [DOC] [TLE] Border Ruffians | Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri ... [PAR] Still others crossed the state line to vote on election days under the ... along 
Missouri's western border flooded across the state line into Kansas to throw the 
popular ... A territorial census taken at the beginning of March 1855, for example, 
counted ... the jayhawkers, rivaled the bloodshed and violence of the larger Civil 
War. [DOC] [TLE] America's Civil War: Missouri and Kansas | HistoryNet [PAR] The Civil War came early to Missouri and Kansas, stayed late, and was ... Frank 
James and his kid brother Jesse, tagging along with Quantrill's men, turned the ... 
Yankee domination of Kansas; if its settlers voted it in as a non-slave state, their 
... Two hundred people died in the border dispute between November 1855 and
... [DOC] [TLE] Bleeding Kansas - PBS [PAR] Most importantly, it saved the Union from the terrible split that many had feared. ... 
In order to get the votes he needed, Douglas had to please Southerners. ... But 
Kansas was next to the slave state of Missouri. ... outbreak of violence was the 
Marais des Cynges massacre, in which Border Ruffians killed five Free State men
. [DOC] [TLE] Border Ruffians [ushistory.org] [PAR] Border Ruffians. ... the fall of 1854, Senator David Atchison of Missouri led over 
1,700 men from Missouri into Kansas to vote for their pro-slavery representative. [DOC] [TLE] Civil War Prelude: "Bleeding Kansas" - Daily Kos [PAR] Jun 28, 2011 ... To many, the battle of Fort Sumter in 1861 was the first battle of the Civil War. ... a 
period of conflict and bloodshed that took place in the Kansas Territory. ... The 
fighting in Kansas was a dark prelude to that war. ... In theory, any of the new 
territories could become slave states. .... [1855 Statutes, Chapter 151]. [DOC] [TLE] With the Border Ruffians, Book II [PAR] With the Border Ruffians: Memories of the Far West, 1852-1868 ... In 1855 the "
city," now a great centre of the rich wheat-growing district in which it stands, .... In 
Kansas the South fought for the right to add to the number of Slave States, which 
was its ..... and I was elected by the unanimous votes of the men to fill the 
vacancy. [DOC] [TLE] Bleeding Kansas | Page 4 | American Civil War Forums - Civil War Talk [PAR] The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (a part of the Compromise of 1850. ... It set aside "
State's Rights" in a way that even men like Rhett of ..... I have heard that many 
anti slavery men boycotted on the vote. .... The Senator took a more active role in 
the conflict in 1855 by leading 5,000 "Border Ruffians" into Kansas... [DOC] [TLE] Cyclopedia of Kansas, 1912, Bourbon County - KSGenWeb [PAR] Bourbon County, on

Question: In 1855 many men from this slave state voted in Kansas, leading to bloodshed along the border
Answer: Missouri