What state was trying popular sovereignty and found bloody trouble?
After the enactment of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which effectively repealed the Missouri compromise, settlers of these territories could decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery or not. The principle idea behind the Kansas-Nebraska Act was the notion of “Popular sovereignty” “Squatters sovereignty”. In November of 1854 thousand of armed southerners known as “border ruffians” who had settled in Kansas, most of them from Missouri, in an attempt to steal the election to Congress of just one single territorial delegate, poured over the line to meet the rumored “30,000 Northern anti slavers who had intended to settle in Kansas and declare it a non slave state. The pro slave state faction won the election and this triggered a series of violent events that would lead to the moniker “Bleeding Kansas” or “Bloody Kansas”.
