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Senator from Illinois who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska act

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Stephen Douglas

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Kansas abolitionist who massacred a pro-slave settlement in Kansas

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John Brown

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Missouri senator that encouraged Border Ruffians to vote in Kansas’s constitutional elections

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David Rice Atchinson

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Anti-slavery Kansan who led the 400 person “Army of the North” to move to Kansas.

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James Lane

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Anti-slavery Kansans that made raids into Missouri

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Jayhawker

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Pro-slave Missourians that made raids on anti-slavery settlements

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Bushwhacker

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Missourians who illegally crossed into Kansas and voted

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Border Ruffians

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Nickname given to Kansas due to the violence between proslavery and antislavery forces

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Bleeding Kansas

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The event in which Missourians crossed into Kansas to vote illegally

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Bogus Elections

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This event occurred when pro-slave forces surrounded Lawrence cutting off supplies, but departed peacefully after a week

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Wakarusa War

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This event occurred when John Brown led a small group that slaughtered five pro-slave settlers in a small settlement in Northeastern Kansas

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Pottawatomie Creek Masacre

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During this attack, several sites in a anti-slavery community in Kansas were burned by those supporting the proslavery side

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Sacking of Lawrence

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Missouri Compromise

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Maine= free
Missouri= slave
Goal was to balance out the slave and free states

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Compromise of 1850

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California joined the US as free
Slave trade was banned in DC
Return any runaway slaves
Utah and New Mexico divided

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The Kansas-Nebraska act

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Stephen Douglas and Andrew Butler
pop. sov would be used to vote in the new states
Violence erupted in Kansas

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Sectionalism

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when the north in and south take pride in where they live

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Pre- War north

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Believed in a strong central government
Had many factories
Only grew food on their farms
Abolitionists

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Pre- war South

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Believed in States’ rights
Many plantations where the slaves worked
Tabacco and Cotton
Mostly Agriculture

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