Why is Kansas Civil War regarded as an outpost of American Civil War?

why is the Kansas civil war regarded as an "outpost" of the American civil war?

The essence of the dispute between the North and the South in the United States is the dispute between the northern capitalists and the southern planters. The northern capitalists need to get raw materials, markets and free labor by destroying the southern plantation economy. Because the foundation of the plantation economy in the south is slavery, the dispute between the North and the South in the United States is manifested in the confrontation between abolition of slavery and slavery. The north is mostly a free state, and the south is mostly a slave-holding state.

from the end of the 18th century to the 19th century, the United States, which occupied territory rapidly, changed from an Atlantic coastal country to a territorial power bordering on two oceans in a few decades, and dozens of new states joined the federation. The north hopes that NSW will become an abolitionist state, while the south hopes that NSW will become a slave-holding state. In order to increase their power, the North and the South fought over these new states, and the United States frequently fought among itself.

in p>182, the Missouri compromise passed by the United States stipulated that the new state located south of 36 degrees 3 minutes north latitude was a slave-holding state, and the state located north of 36 degrees 3 minutes north latitude was a free state. It can be said that the "Missouri compromise case" is a "muddle" between the north and the south. In February 1848, when the American-Mexican War ended, a large area of the original Mexican territory south of 36 degrees and 3 minutes north latitude was annexed by the United States, and contradictions followed.

according to the Missouri compromise, the newly annexed Mexican territory should be a slave-holding state. However, because Mexico abolished slavery decades earlier than the United States, the people in the former Mexican territory (mainly California and New Mexico) opposed the state becoming a slave-holding state. The abolitionist ideas of these new states naturally received strong support from the north, demanding that all new states become new free states.

As a result, the contradiction between the North and the South became more and more serious because of whether NSW held slaves, and the Civil War almost broke out ahead of schedule. At that time, President Zachary Taylor (a southerner) also died because he supported the North. In the end, the two sides reached a compromise: California was a free state, and New Mexico and Utah were to be determined, allowing southern slave owners to hunt down fugitive slaves in the north. The Missouri compromise case exists in name only.

in p>1854, the United States declared the Missouri compromise and the 185 compromise invalid. The newly promulgated "kansas-nebraska act" stipulates that the free state and slave-holding state are no longer divided according to the region, but are decided by the people of the state. The North and the South immigrated to NSW, which has not yet been decided, and the conflict between the immigrants became more and more serious, and the focus area was Kansas.

at that time, Kansas was a central state at the border between the north and the south, and it was also a traffic artery for immigrants from the north and the south to NSW. Therefore, both the north and the south immigrated to Kansas in large numbers, which led to a 5-5 split between northerners and southerners in Kansas. So both northerners and southerners set up governments in Kansas (Lekonton government, Topeka government), and Kansas is "one state and two governments".

both Kansas governments accused each other of being illegal and demanded that the federal government recognize them. At that time, President Pierce of the United States was a pro-Southern "embroidered pillow", who recognized the Lekonton government established by southerners as "legitimate" and declared the Topeka government as "rebellion". Pierce's partiality naturally fueled the arrogance of the Lekonton government in Kansas, which led to the Lekonton government's plan to eliminate the Topeka government in one fell swoop.

On May 21st, 1856, the armed forces and thugs of Lekonton government looted Lawrence, a government stronghold in Topeka. The atrocities of Lekonton government aroused the strong resistance of Topeka government, and the armed forces and supporters of the two state governments went to war, and the civil war broke out in Kansas. Armed forces from other free states and slave-holding states also came to Kansas to "make great contributions", including the famous john brown.

At that time, the federal government of the United States prevented the war in Kansas from spreading to other states, and limited the scale of the civil war in Kansas to continue to expand, but it did not end the civil war. The civil war in Kansas caused hundreds of casualties and a lot of property losses, and the north, which was more popular with the local people, gradually prevailed. On January 29, 1861, the South, which had decided to leave the union, gave up Kansas and Kansas became a free state.

The civil war in Kansas resulted in two results: First, the conflict between the North and the South reached the level of armed conflict, which marked the complete bankruptcy of several federal governments' "muddling along" strategy and laid the foundation for Lincoln's election; Second, the South still failed to win Kansas with the support and connivance of the federal government, which led the South to think that the federal government could no longer protect its own interests and made up its mind to be independent.

In addition, the Civil War in Kansas ended in January 1861, while the American Civil War broke out in April 1861. For this reason, many scholars, including Marx, believe that the Kansas Civil War is the "outpost war" of the American Civil War.