Bleeding Kansas
by Richard Reece
- Minneapolis, MN : ABDO Pub. Co., c2012.
- 112 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map, ports. ; 24 cm.
- Essential events .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Kansas question -- Slavery in the United States -- The race to Kansas -- A territory divided -- Bleeding Kansas -- The path toward statehood -- Guerilla warfare -- Civil War -- Bleeding Kansas legacy -- Timeline -- Essential facts.
Presents a history of the border war preceding the American Civil War that was waged over whether Kansas would join the Union as a slave state or a free state.