1. People on both sides tried to encourage like-minded settlers to move there to influence the vote of whether it would be a slave state or not
2. In 1856 Kansas had two illegal governments
3. In 1856 the Free State town of Lawrence was attacked by pro slavery supporters
4. Newspaper presses were smashed, and property stolen and burned
5. In response John Brown and his sons led a group to attack a pro slavery settlement Potawatomie Creek
7. Violence spread, and, in the end, the Federal government had to step in and Kansas was declared a free state