• 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...
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  • 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...
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    (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...
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  • River Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, Kansas The Wakarusa War, part of the Bleeding Kansas violence before the American Civil War Wakarusa Music and...
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    Samuel J. Jones (category People of Kansas in the American Civil War)
    (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...
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    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,...
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    in North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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