Round 9: 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 tactics forced Frank James away from a river that forms a border between these two states. In retaliation for an earlier raid on the pro-Confederate settlement in one of these states’ towns of Osceola, raids in the other of these states (-5[1])were carried out by William Quantrill. (10[1])Lawrence (10[1])was a center of Jayhawker (10[1])activity (10[1])in one of these states (-5[1])under threat of attack (10[1])from pro-slavery Border (10[1])Ruffians from the other of these states. (10[1])For 10 points, name these two states, settlers from one of which’s capital of Jefferson City fought during its western neighbor’s “Bleeding” period. ■END■ (10[1])

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