A Land Rush in Kansas
Very great, more than usual
What is radical?
To bring legal action against a person to settle a difference.
What is sue?
A crime involving an attempt to overthrow the government.
What is treason?
to leave a group or organization
What is secede?
bullets, gunpowder, and other things used with guns or other weapons.
What is ammunition?
boxes of guns were disguised as this
What are bibles?
to settle a difference
What is resolve?
A place used to make or store military weapons.
What is arsenal?
A statement of ideas, policies, and beliefs of a political party in an election.
What is platform?
Insulting
What is belittling?
the radical abolitionist that attacked a proslavery group and was later hanged for treason
Who is John Brown?
the decision of a court case
What is ruling?
To promise to do something.
What is vow?
Won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The president elected in 1856.
Who is James Buchanan?
The fighting between the proslavery and antislavery people in Kansas territory caused it to become known as this.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Having good feelings toward what may happen in the future
What is optimistic?
A person who takes an opposite position in an event such as a debate or contest.
What is an opponent?
the new political party that formed
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
The Dred Scott supreme court ruling stated that slaves were not citizens but ______________________.
What is property?
the fighting in Kansas was caused because of this
Both the proslavery and antislavery wanted control of the territory before it became a state
to give someone the right to do something
What is entitle?
To use power to prevent something from occurring.
What is forbid?
An issue in the election of 1860
What is slavery?
One reason the Lincoln Douglas debates was good for Lincoln.
He said things that made people listen which increased his popularity. Known as Honest Abe.