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It took a very long time for Charles Sumner to recover from the attack. Brooks was given a $300 fine instead of being expelled from the house. The violence from this sent Sumner to be away from the House for multiple years. In the end, Sumner resigned and returned to his home in South Carolina.

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Border Ruffians: ProSlavery vs. Anti-Slavery

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Border Ruffians: ProSlavery vs. Anti-Slavery

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In the year 1869 in Kansas, they housed the Free soil Kansas Legislature Though these results were later ruled fraudulent, they changed the outlook on slavery in Kansas. Anti-Slavery forces had the numbers in Kansas, but they were still outvoted. In the end, there were 36 pro-slavery delegates and 3 anti-slavery delegates.

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Representative Brooks thought that Sumner went way to far. Sumner contradicted the way the 19th century folks were raised. Brooks decided to teach Sumner a lesson that he will soon never forget. Brooks preceded to meet Sumner at his desk in the Senate House and said, " You've libeled my state and slandered my white-haired old relative, Senator Butler, and I've come to punish you for it."

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The attack angered a lot of people. Republicans passed a bill to bring Kansas into the union as a free state. Democrats wanted to bring in Kansas as a slave state. Neither side could get enough votes necessary to win. Both sides kept trying to get Kansas into the union.

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In a turn of events, the people were out to get John Brown and he ended up traveling North, where he was heard of only a few times. When 1856 concluded, over 200 were killed, and Kansas partially became known for the bloody event that happened amongst its grounds.

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This anger and rage clearly showed, when Brown and his men beheaded and shredded their enemies. By the end, five men were dead, killed just by the hands of Brown.

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Missouri Counties that bordered with Kansas strongly supported slavery, and believed that Kansas should be a slave state. In the year 1874, Missouri Senator, David Atchison,  led 1,700 men from Missouri to the Kansas Border to vote for their pro-slavery representative.

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In the Spring of 1856, Judge Samuel Lecompte ordered for the anti-slavery leaders in Lawrence to be arrested. Over 800 pro-slavery supporters rode into Kansas and attacked the city of Lawrence. They also attacked two newspaper offices and many home and shops. As a final message to Abolitionists, they aimed their cannons at the Free State Hotel and smashed it into oblivion

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Senator Charles Sumner proposed a bitter speech named, " The Crime Against Kansas". He mainly pointed out the murderous robbers of Missouri calling them, "hirelings, picked from the drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civilization.". Then, he called out the senate of South Carolina.

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Border Ruffians were those who threatened to shoot, burn,  and hang those who opposed slavery.

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Lawrence was the center of Kansas' free slave movement. New England abolitionists sent guns to Kansas to help out the anti-slavery movement

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John Brown and 7 others crept down to Pottawatomie Creek, furious and angry, prepared to seek vengeance on their enemies.