· Douglas hoped that northerners opposing his bill would quiet down after the bill was settled, but they became more furious
             · Antislavery critics wanted to prevent slavery from gaining a foothold in Kansas
             â Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company was found to help emigrants to settle down in Kansas â hundreds of settlers moved to Kansas
             · Alarmed proslavery groups also started to go to Kansas
             · When a territorial legislature was elected in March 1855 over 6000 votes were counted
             · ~ 5000 of these votes were illegal because most Missourians who voted were not residents âlarge number of men who had been elected were proslavery
             â a law was quickly passed authorizing slavery in Kansas!
             â even death penalty was passed for people helping slaves to escape
             · Kansans refused to accept the new legislature and set up an own government at the town of Topeka
             â fighting between these two governments broke out â weapons from the East were sent to Kansans
             · Tension between these two parties started to explode when in November 1855 a Kansan were killed by a proslavery man
             · On May 21st, Sheriff Jones, a proslavery, and a proslavery army marched into Lawrence and destroyed two printing presses and burned down several buildings
             · A few days later John Brown and seven other men, took revenge and massacred five people (they split open their skulls and cut off some of their hands)
             As a result civil war in Kansas broke out
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