Unit Test Flashcards
Senator from Illinois who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska act
Stephen Douglas
Kansas abolitionist who massacred a pro-slave settlement in Kansas
John Brown
Missouri senator that encouraged Border Ruffians to vote in Kansas’s constitutional elections
David Rice Atchinson
Anti-slavery Kansan who led the 400 person “Army of the North” to move to Kansas.
James Lane
Anti-slavery Kansans that made raids into Missouri
Jayhawker
Pro-slave Missourians that made raids on anti-slavery settlements
Bushwhacker
Missourians who illegally crossed into Kansas and voted
Border Ruffians
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 pro-slave forces surrounded Lawrence cutting off supplies, but departed peacefully after a week
Wakarusa War
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 Masacre
During this attack, several sites in a anti-slavery community in Kansas were burned by those supporting the proslavery side
Sacking of Lawrence
Missouri Compromise
Maine= free
Missouri= slave
Goal was to balance out the slave and free states
Compromise of 1850
California joined the US as free
Slave trade was banned in DC
Return any runaway slaves
Utah and New Mexico divided
The Kansas-Nebraska act
Stephen Douglas and Andrew Butler
pop. sov would be used to vote in the new states
Violence erupted in Kansas
