Timeline December 1855

Events in December 1855 1

• 1855 Wakarusa War Armed standoff in Kansas Territory over slavery Pro-slavery and free-state militias mobilized around Lawrence, Kansas, in a tense armed confrontation known as the Wakarusa War. The crisis was defused by negotiation before large-scale fighting broke out, but it foreshadowed the violence of "Bleeding Kansas." The dispute centered on whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave or free state.