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Bitter confrontations over what issue earned the new Kansas territory the name "Bleeding Kansas"?

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Slavery.

"Bleeding Kansas" refers to violent clashes in the 1850s between pro‑slavery and anti‑slavery settlers in the Kansas Territory over whether it would enter the Union as a slave or free state.