Baxter Springs Massacre

Target entity: Baxter Springs Massacre
Context triple: [Baxter Springs, Kansas, knownFor, Baxter Springs Massacre]

• A. Marais des Cygnes massacre
  The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
• B. Washita Massacre
  The Washita Massacre was an 1868 U.S. Army attack led by George Armstrong Custer on a Southern Cheyenne village in present-day Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of many Native American men, women, and children and becoming a symbol of the violence of the Indian Wars.
• C. Pottawatomie massacre
  The Pottawatomie massacre was an 1856 episode of anti-slavery violence in Kansas in which abolitionist John Brown and his followers killed five pro-slavery settlers, escalating tensions that helped lead to the American Civil War.
• D. Coushatta Massacre
  The Coushatta Massacre was an 1874 Reconstruction-era attack in Louisiana in which members of the White League murdered Republican officeholders and freedmen to undermine Black political rights and restore white supremacist control.
• E. Johnson County War
  The Johnson County War was a violent late-19th-century conflict in Wyoming between large cattle barons and smaller settlers and rustlers, emblematic of the lawlessness and power struggles of the American Wild West.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Baxter Springs Massacre
Target entity description: The Baxter Springs Massacre was an 1863 Civil War attack in which Confederate guerrillas led by William Quantrill ambushed and killed a large number of Union soldiers and civilians near Baxter Springs, Kansas.

• A. Marais des Cygnes massacre
  The Marais des Cygnes massacre was an 1858 attack in Kansas Territory in which pro-slavery militants executed a group of free-state men, becoming one of the most notorious episodes of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict.
• B. Washita Massacre
  The Washita Massacre was an 1868 U.S. Army attack led by George Armstrong Custer on a Southern Cheyenne village in present-day Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of many Native American men, women, and children and becoming a symbol of the violence of the Indian Wars.
• C. Pottawatomie massacre
  The Pottawatomie massacre was an 1856 episode of anti-slavery violence in Kansas in which abolitionist John Brown and his followers killed five pro-slavery settlers, escalating tensions that helped lead to the American Civil War.
• D. Coushatta Massacre
  The Coushatta Massacre was an 1874 Reconstruction-era attack in Louisiana in which members of the White League murdered Republican officeholders and freedmen to undermine Black political rights and restore white supremacist control.
• E. Johnson County War
  The Johnson County War was a violent late-19th-century conflict in Wyoming between large cattle barons and smaller settlers and rustlers, emblematic of the lawlessness and power struggles of the American Wild West.
• F. None of above. chosen