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Question | Answer |
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abolitionist | a person who wanted to bring about the immediate end of slavery |
anti slavery | opposed to practice of slavery |
Border Ruffian | Missouri settlers who crossed into Kansas to influence the outcome of the slavery issue in Kansas |
bush whacker | Missouri Settlers who raided anti-slavery settlements in Kansas |
demographic | relating to the study of the characteristics of human populations |
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 |
Jay Hawker | a free-soil or unionist guerrilla in Kansas and Missouri during the border disputes |
Martyr | one who chooses to suffer death ´rather than renounce his or her belief |
Popular sovereignty | the concept that political and legislative power resides with the citizens |
Pro Slavery | supportive of the practice of slavery |
repeal | to revoke |
seige | the surrounding and blockading of a city or town by an army attempting to capture it |
servitude | a subjection to an owner or master |
Speculator | someone who invests financially in something, with the possibility of great gains or losses |
transcontinial | spanning or crossing a continent |
Treason | violation allegiance towards one´s country |
unconstitutional | not in accord with principal´s set forth in the Constitution of a nation or state |
David Rice Atchison | mid |
John Brown | |
Charles Sumner | |
Andrew H Reeder | |
pro-slvery towns | Leavenworth and athison |
anti-slavery towns | Lawrence and Topeka |