What was the name of the settlers in Kansas Territory during the Bleeding Kansas era?
Q: What was the name of the settlers in Kansas Territory during the Bleeding Kansas era?
A: The settlers were known as Free-Staters.
Q: Where did some of the Free-Staters come from?
A: Some Free-Staters came from New England, while others came from Ohio, Iowa, and other midwestern states.
Q: What did most Free-Staters believe at the beginning?
A: Most Free-Staters initially believed that all Black people should be excluded from settling in Kansas.
Q: How did pro-slavery Southerners characterize all Free-Staters?
A: Pro-slavery Southerners characterized all Free-Staters as abolitionists.
Q: What was included in the Topeka Constitution drafted by the Free Stater in 1855?
A: The Topeka Constitution would have excluded any black person from settling in Kansas, whether they were slaves or free.
Q: How did abolitionists differ from most of the settlers?
A: Abolitionists wanted equal rights for all blacks and to end discrimination against them, whereas most of the settlers seemed to want free soil for white people only.
Q: What was included in the Leavenworth Constitution proposed by the Free Stater in 1858?
A: The Leavenworth Constitution banned slavery and also would have given voting rights to black men.
