upon hearing this, about 1,200 armed new englanders came to kansas to vote against slavery. however, thousands of southerners, mostly from missouri, came to vote for slavery. the final vote was to make slavery legal, and kansas adopted most of missouri's slave laws. there was fighting between southerners and northerners in kansas. in one fight, john brown and his men killed five people in the pottawatomie massacre. later, southerners destroyed lawrence, kansas. kansas was called "bleeding kansas".