David Atchison was a Congressional agitator for this conflict, which saw Henry Pate's followers lose the Battle of Black Jack.
During this conflict, a cannon called "Old Kickapoo" repeatedly overshot a building it intended to destroy, forcing forcing the Kickapoo Rangers to abandon it and go room-by-room setting fire to a hotel founded by Eli Thayer's company. The so-called "Bogus Laws" helped trigger this conflict, in which Jacob Branson's arrest and the shooting of Charles Dow triggered a sub-war centered on a certain river valley. David Atchison was a Congressional agitator for this conflict, which saw Henry Pate's followers lose the Battle of Black Jack. Wooden crates carried (*) breech-loading Sharps rifles to one side of this conflict, which included the Wakarusa side theater, at the behest of a Brooklyn minister. Those "Beecher's Bibles" were employed in this conflict, which saw the drafting of controversial documents named for Wyandotte and Lecompton. Featuring the "border ruffians," for 10 points, name the violent term for this 1850s conflict that saw the issue of slavery divide a territory that included the city of Topeka.
During this conflict, a cannon called "Old Kickapoo" repeatedly overshot a building it intended to destroy, forcing forcing the Kickapoo Rangers to abandon it and go room-by-room setting fire to a hotel founded by Eli Thayer's company.
Bleeding Kansas [or Bloody Kansas; accept the Border War before "border;" accept equivalents conveying civil strife in Kansas; do NOT accept "the Civil War"]