Packet H: Tossup 20

Two answers required. Neither are Florida, but a conflict between settlers from these two present-day states prompted George Henry Hoyt and James Montgomery to carry out retaliatory attacks in the other. Charles Jennison’s total war (10[1])tactics forced Frank James away from a river that forms a border between these two states. (-5[1])In retaliation for an earlier (-5[1])raid on the pro-Confederate (10[1])settlement in one of these states’ (10[2])towns of Osceola, (-5[1])raids (-5[1])in the (10[1])other (10[1])of these (10[1])states (-5[1])were carried (10[1])out by William (10[1])Quantrill. (10[5]-5[2])Lawrence (10[2]-5[1])was a (10[1])center (10[3])of Jayhawker (10[5]-5[1])activity (10[1])in (10[1])one (10[1])of these states (10[1]-5[3])under threat (-5[1])of attack (10[1]-5[1])from pro-slavery (-5[1])Border (10[1]-5[1])Ruffians (10[1])from the (-5[1])other (10[2]-5[3])of these states. (10[2]-5[3])For 10 points, (-5[1])name these two states, (10[1])settlers from one of which’s capital of Jefferson City (10[2])fought (10[2])during its (10[2])western (10[1])neighbor’s (10[1])“Bleeding” (10[2])period. (10[5])■END■ (10[17]0[6])

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