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| Quantrill's raid | A guerrilla attack on Lawrence Kansas, where Abolionists and Jayhawkers were killed. In addittion, the city of Lawrence was burned |
| Guerrilla(warfare) | warfare where the fighters use tricks and traps to slowly wear down the opposing side |
| Abolitionists | A person who wanted to end slavery everywhere because they felt that slavery was morally wrong |
| Battle of Mine Creek | A civil war battle where Union troops chased and fought confederate troops who were stealing supplies from towns in Kansas |
| Wyandotte Constitution | This was the final draft of the Kansas Constitution. without this constitution, Kansas would not have become a state and been allowed into the Union. |
| Bleeding Kansas | This was the name given to the time period right before Kansas became a state. Many people fought, argued and died over the issue of slavery in Kansas during this time |
| Emigrant Aid Societies | Groups of Abolitionists from the Northeast, who would set up anti-slavery towns, and help pay for people to move to Kansas if they agreed to vote against slavery. |
| Beecher Bible | Rifles used by abolitionist Henry Beecher. |
| John Greenleaf Whittier | An Abolitionist who used poems to inspire people to move to Kansas and help end slavery |
| John Brown | An abolitionist who moved to Kansas to fight in battles against slavery |
| Border Ruffian | People who lived in Missouri, that would come to Kansas and try to vote for slavery. |
| Bushwackers/ Bushwhackers | People from Missouri who would come into kansas to start fights arguements and used guerrilla warfare. |
| Jayhawkers | People from Kansas who would go to Missouri to start fights, arguements and used guerrilla tactics. |
| Underground Railroad | Trails and houses that slaves used to escape from slavery |
| Free-staters | People who did not want to see slavery in any new parts of the United States, but felt that slavery should be allowed where it had already been. |
| Popular sovereignty | The idea that the people who lived in a territiory should decide if slavery should be allowed |
| Kansas Nebraska Act | An act passed by congress that allowed the lands that would become Kansas and Nebraska to be opend for settlement. This act also said that each territory would have to decide if slavery would by allowed or not(popular sovereignty). |
| Clarina Nichols | A leader in the effort to give women equal rights in the Kansas territory |
| Dread Scott | A slave who sued in order to gain his freedom, he lost the court case |
| Territorial Period | The yhears after the Kansas Nebraska act, but before Kansas was accepted as astate. |
