The Wakarusa War was an armed standoff that took place in the Kansas Territory during November and December 1855. It is often cited by historians as the...

Kansas" or "the Border Wars", directly presaged the American Civil War. The major incidents of Bleeding Kansas include the Wakarusa War, the Sacking of Lawrence...

River Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, Kansas The Wakarusa War, part of the Bleeding Kansas violence before the American Civil War Wakarusa Music and...

(1854–1861), and the site of the Wakarusa War (1855) and the Sacking of Lawrence (1856). During the American Civil War it was also the site of the Lawrence...

(1912), pp. 855–57. Litteer (1987), pp. 13–14. Mullis, Tony. "Wakarusa War". Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865...

day—as a free state.[citation needed] On November 21, 1855, the so-called Wakarusa War began in Douglas County when a proslavery settler, Franklin Coleman,...

The Wakarusa River is a tributary of the Kansas River, approximately 80.5 miles (129.6 km) long, in eastern Kansas in the United States. It drains an agricultural...

in North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina...

versa). While the village had nearly been raided during the so-called Wakarusa War in December 1855, it was not directly attacked at that time. Abolitionists...

an abolitionist who was killed in Douglas County in 1855 during the Wakarusa War. Barber County was formed in 1867 from parts of Washington County, Peketon...

Riot (1855) Charleston riot (1864) Kansas Bleeding Kansas (1854–1861) Wakarusa War (1855) Sacking of Lawrence (1856) Pottawatomie massacre (1856) Battle...

The Anti-Rent War (also known as the Helderberg War) was a tenants' revolt in upstate New York between 1839 and 1845. The Anti-Renters declared their...

40°35′N 93°28′W / 40.58°N 93.46°W / 40.58; -93.46 The Honey War was a bloodless territorial dispute in 1839 between Iowa Territory and Missouri over...

but were driven off. This became the nearly bloodless climax to the "Wakarusa War". On May 21, 1856, an even larger force of border ruffians and pro-slavery...

Britain and its colonies. Five years passed between the massacre and outright war, and Neil York suggests that there is only a tenuous connection between the...

graduation, he began to work for his uncle, just as the French and Indian War had begun. Thomas Hancock had close relations with the royal governors of...

on several occasions, notably during the incidents referred to as the Wakarusa War. During John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, local militia companies from...

possible terms. The Governor will grant you nothing. You are unprepared for war! You have no cannon! You have no military training! You have no commanding...

between members of the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery Boys into a citywide gang war, which occurred July 4–5, 1857. Taking advantage of the disorganized state...

rights injustices by the Massachusetts Government were led by Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays. However, recent scholarship has suggested that Shays's...

and the Creation of a Republican Majority in the North before the Civil War," Journal of American History, Vol. 72, No. 3 (Dec., 1985), pp. 529–559 in...

Civil War, fewer people chose to emigrate from England to flee that internal conflict. Between the First Anglo-Dutch War and the Second Anglo-Dutch War, the...

to military action in the United States since the American Revolutionary War, and led to increased police militarization (for example, riot control training...

for British shipbuilding. British success in the War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748) and the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) were due in large part to the control...

C. (1998). Trial Separation: Murfreesboro, North Carolina, and the Civil War. Murfreesboro, North Carolina: Murfreesboro Historical Association, Inc....

during which a state-level civil war in the Kansas Territory was described as a "tragic prelude" to the American Civil War which soon followed. "Bleeding...

erected in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where it first erupted. When the Quasi-War with France threatened to escalate in 1798, Congress raised a large army...

army started before the American Civil War. The first documented event of Bleeding Kansas was the Wakarusa War that saw both sides clash and come to a...

Territory of Orleans 1812 – Baltimore riots, these took place shortly before the War of 1812 1824 – Hard Scrabble and Snow Town Riots, 1824 & 1831 respectively...

Spanish Florida. In the early 18th century, Kongo had been undergoing civil wars, leading to more people being captured and sold into slavery, including trained...