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Fugitive Slave Act
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Conflict in Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
100
This senator from Kentucky convinced Congress to pass the Fugitive Slave Act.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
This person proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
100
These are the two types of people who went to Kansas.
What are pro and antislavery groups?
100
This is the town attacked by slave supporters in May 1856.
What is Lawrence?
200
The year when the Fugitive Slave was passed.
What is 1850?
200
This person became president in 1853 and intended to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
200
These are the pro-slavery Missourians who traveled in armed groups in Kansas.
What are border ruffians?
200
This number of slave supporters attacked the town of Lawrence.
What is 800.
300
This was the system of free African Americans and whites that helped runaway slaves escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
This group opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the South?
300
This is the amount of voters in Kansas for whether or not there would be slavery.
What is 6,000?
300
This is the leader of the antislavery retaliation.
Who is John Brown?
400
This is the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is to catch runaway slaves?
400
This allowed people in each territory to vote on whether or not they would have slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
These people held their own elections to ban slavery.
What are antislavery activists?
400
This is the number of people killed by John Brown's supporters.
What is 5?
500
This is the writer of "Civil Disobedience" and the leader of those that refused to acknowledge the Fugitive Slave Act.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
500
The Kansas-Nebraska Act accomplished this.
What is organizing the region west of Missouri and Iowa as territories of Kansas and Nebraska?
500
This is when rival governments existed in Kansas.
When is January 1856?
500
This is another name for Bleeding Kansas.
What is "The Civil War in Kansas?"