What event started “bleeding kansas”? use the chart and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question. causes of the civil war long-term causes: - sectional economic and cultural differences - debate over expansion of slavery into the territories - political compromises failed to ease sectional differences and resolve questions of expanding slavery · missouri compromise (1820) · compromise of 1850 · kansas-nebraska act (1854) - laws increased sectional tension · fugitive slave act (1850) · dred scott decision · tariff policy - growth of the anti-slavery movement - uncle tom’s cabin short-term causes: - kansas-nebraska act splits political parties - breakdown of the party system - lincoln elected president - south carolina secedes

a. preston brooks beat charles sumner unconscious with a cane. b. john brown carried out midnight executions of pro-slavery settlers. c. charles sumner delivered a speech called “the crime against kansas.”d. border ruffians raided the anti-slavery town of lawrence, kansas.