causes and laws
This 1854 Act allowed settlers in two new territories to decide on slavery themselves.
Kansas-Nebraska act
Radical abolitionist who led the Pottawatomie Massacre and later raided Harpers Ferry.
John Brown
Pro-slavery forces attacked this anti-slavery stronghold in May 1856, burning buildings.
Lawrence, Kansas
This proslavery group from Missouri crossed the border to vote illegally.
Boarder ruffians
The concept of allowing residents to vote on the issue of slavery is known as this.
popular sovereignty
Massachusetts Senator who was brutally beaten with a cane on the Senate floor.
Charles Summer
John Brown’s retaliatory attack where five pro-slavery advocates were killed.
Pottawatomie Massacre.
what organization funded abolitionists in Lawrence kansas
the New England Emigrant Aid Company
This 1850 law required citizens to assist in capturing runaway slaves, fueling Northern anger.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The South Carolina Congressman who attacked Senator Sumner for his anti-slavery speech.
Preston Brooks
The 1858 massacre where pro-slavery forces shot 11 free-state men in a ravine.
Marais des Cygnes Massacre.
beecher's bibles
This Supreme Court ruling stated that Black people could not be citizens and Congress couldn't ban slavery in territories.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Free-state leader who eventually became one of the first U.S. Senators from Kansas.
James Henry Lane
This city served as the pro-slavery capital of the Kansas Territory.
Lecompton
This party was formed in 1854 specifically to stop the spread of slavery into the territories.
republican party
This Senator introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act to facilitate the building of a transcontinental railroad.
Stephen A. Douglas
He was the first territorial governor of Kansas, who eventually resigned after failing to stop the fraud.
Andrew Horatio Reeder
This site was the scene of a battle where John Brown's son was killed.
Osawatomie, Kansas,
what city did abolitionists establish a shadow government in to rival the proslavery capital
Topeka Kansas