In the 1850s, the term “Bleeding Kansas” referred to

“Bleeding Kansas” refers to the violent clashes in Kansas Territory during the 1850s between proslavery and antislavery settlers. The violence grew out of the dispute over whether slavery would be allowed in Kansas, so choice C, “violence related to the slavery issue,” is correct. Preston Brooks’s attack on Charles Sumner was a separate incident in Congress.

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