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Bleeding Kansas Timeline

March 6, 1820

The Missouri Compromise

August 10, 1821

Missouri admitted as 24th state

May 30, 1854

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

March 30, 1855

Kansas Territory Legislative Elections

December 15, 1855

The Topeka Constitution

November – December in 1855

The Wakarusa War

January 15, 1856

Free State Elections

May 21, 1856

The Sack of Lawrence

May 24, 1856

The Pottawatomie Massacre

June 2, 1856

The Battle of Black Jack

August 16, 1856

The Battle of Fort Titus

August 30, 1856

The Battle of Osawatomie

September 13, 1856

The Battle of Hickory Point

October 16, 1857

The Lecompton Constitution

May 18, 1858

The Leavenworth Constitution

May 19, 1858

The Marais Des Cygnes Massacre

January 31, 1859

The Battle of the Spurs

October 4, 1859

The Wyandotte Constitution

January 29, 1861

Kansas admitted as 34th state



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