KS Chapter 4 Terms Word Scramble
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abolitionist | a person who wanted to bring about the immediate end of slavery |
antislavery | opposed to practice of slavery |
border ruffian | Missouri settlers who crossed into Kansas to influence the outcome of slavery issue in Kansas |
bushwhacker | Missouri settlers who raided antislavery settlements in Kansas |
demographic | relating to the study of the characteristics of human population |
expansionist | the practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion |
free-stater | a settler who believed Kansas should not allow slavery |
indentured servant | a person who is bonded or contracted to work for another for a specified time |
jayhawker | a free soil or Unionist guerrilla in Kansas and Missouri during the border dispute |
martyr | one who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce his or her beliefs |
popular sovereignty | the concept that political and legislative power resides with the citizens |
proslavery | supportive of the practice of slavery |
repeal | to revoke |
siege | the surrounding and blockading of a city or town by an army attempting to capture it |
servitude | a state of subjection to an owner or master |
speculator | someone who invests financially in something, with the possibility of great gains or losses |
transcontinental | spanning or crossing a continent |
treason | violation of allegiance toward one's country |
unconstitutional | not in accord with the principles set forth in the constitution of a nation or state |
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