Key Vocabulary
This term means letting voters decide the issue of slavery
Popular Sovereignty
The act that allowed Kansas voters to decide on slavery
Kansas- Nebraska Act
The nickname for the violent conflict in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
Former enslaved person and abolitionist speaker
Fredrick Douglas
The constitution that made Kansas a free state
Wyandotte Constitution
A person who wanted to end slavery
abolitionist
The region that depended on enslaved labor for farming
South
The town attacked by pro-slavery forces
Lawrence
Women's rights leader who helped change the Kansas Constitution
Clarina Nichols
The year Kansas became a state
1861
Surprise attacks by small groups are called this type of warfare
guerilla warfare
The compromise repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
The abolitionist who believed violence could end slavery
John Brown
Confederate leader who led a deadly raid on Lawrence
William Quantrill
The number of Constitutions Kansas wrote
four
The right to vote
suffrage
The system where enslaved people were treated as property
slavery
The massacre where five pro-slavery men were killed
Pottawatomie Massacre
Union leaders who ordered families out of Missouri border conflicts
Thomas Ewing JR
The constitution supported by pro-slavery leaders
Lecompton Constitution
to officially leave a country or government
secede
The dangerous sea voyage enslaved Africans endured
Middle Passage
The event where newspapers were destroyed in Lawrence
Sack of Lawrence
Kansas Governor elected after statehood
Charles Robinson
Kansas states motto meaning "to the stars through difficulty"
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