Causes of the Civil War Flashcards
Missourians who illegally crossed into Kansas and voted
Border Ruffians
Pro-slave Missourians that made raids on anti-slavery settlements
Bushwhacker
Anti-slavery Kansans that made raids into Missouri
Jayhawker
Missouri senator that encouraged Border Ruffians to vote in Kansas’s constitutional elections
David Rice Atchison
Anti-slavery who led the 400 person “ Army of the North “ to move to Kansas
James Lane
Kansas abolitionist who massacred a pro-slave settlement in Kansas
John Brown
Senator from Illinois who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Nickname given to Kansas due to the violence between proslavery and antislavery forces
Bleeding Kansas
The event in which Missourians crossed into Kansas to vote illegally
Bogus Elections
This event occurred when John Brown led a small group that slaughtered five pro-slave settlers in a small settlement in Northeastern Kansas
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
During this attack, several sites in anti-slavery community in Kansas were burned by those supporting the proslavery side
Sacking of Lawrence
This event occurred when pro-slave forces surrounded Lawrence cutting off supplies, but departed peacefully after a week.
Wakarusa War
Factories, Central Government, abolitionists, Urban
North
Slavery, State Government, Cotton, Plantations
South
A novel about slavery which was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It became a bestseller in the North. It made people start to view slavery as more of a moral problem, not just a political conflict.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
An agreement made between supporters of slavery in the South and opponents of slavery in the North. The agreement included four parts:
+ California was admitted to the Union as a free state
+ The slave trade was banned in the nation’s capital
+ Popular sovereignty would be used to decide the question of slavery in the states created from the Mexican Cession
+ A tough new fugitive slave law was put in place
Compromise of 1850
This was an agreement created in 1820 to establish and maintain the balance between free and slave states
Missouri Compromise
Popular Sovereignty would be used to decide the issue of slavery in the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory
Kansas-Nebraska Act
An abolitionist was a person that was against slavery, and put efforts into trying to stop it
Abolitionist
Popular sovereignty is when the people that the decision would affect vote for what they think is right
Popular sovereignty
