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Chapter 4/ss
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bushwacker | A Missourian who led raids into Kansas during Bleeding Kansas |
| Border ruffian | a Missourian who voted illegally on the issue of slavery in Kansas to influence the outcome |
| Jayhawker | led raids against Missouri |
| Proslavery | for slavery |
| Antislavery | not for slavery |
| David Rice Atchison | missouri senator who encouraged missourians to vote illegally |
| John Brown | used violence to end slavery |
| Samuel Jones | the sheriff of Douglas county who burned down Lawrence (which is in Douglas county) |
| andrew reeder | first governor of the Kansas territory.(territorial governor) |
| Charles Robinson | first governer of kansas |
| Stephen A. Douglas | caused the kansas nebraska act |
| Dred Scott | slave who sued government for freedom and they said african americans were not citezens |
| Abraham Lincoln | president during the civil war |
| Popular Sovereignty | when the people vote |
| The Underground Railroad | a network of houses that helped slaves get to freedom |
| Census | counting people and demographics |
| Pony Express | fast mail delivery by people riding on horses |
| Fugitive Slave Act | you had to return slaves to there owners even if they got into a free state |
| Missouri Compromise | no slavery above the 36 30 line, and missouri became a slave state and maine became a free state. |
| Compromise of 1850 | california is added as a free state plus fugitive slave act |
| why was it hard to make a government in Kansas Territory? | Proslavery and Antislavery disagreed |
| How did Kansas Territory gain the nickname “Bleeding Kansas”? | The violent events |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Kansas and Nebraska got popular sovereignty over the issue of slavery and it repealed the Missouri compromise |