... would be a free state or a slave state. This launched a bloody battle in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers, and Kansas became known as " Bleeding Kansas". The Kansas-Nebraska Act also severely weakened the Democratic party in the free states (Hughes 48-49, Katz 79 -82). In 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union, quickly followed by Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana ... commander buried Commander Shaw with his Negro soldiers because he thought that such a burial would humiliate the Boston abolitionist after death (Hughes 180- 182,Katz 28-32). The South...

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