The strife in 'Bleeding Kansas' was associated with a conflict between free-soilers and slavery supporters.
Bleeding Kansas is the term which describes the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. It constituted a wave of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which stemmed from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery.
The conflict is remembered by years of electoral fraud, raids, assaults, and retributive murders.
