| A | B |
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| Stephen Douglas | Illinois Senator who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Kansas- Nebraska Act | popular sovereignty(deciding by voting)would determine whether there was slavery or not in Kan-Neb territories |
| Missouri Compromise | This law would be canceled by the Kan-Neb Act |
| Northerners outraged | because of Kan-Neb Act now slavery could be everywhere |
| Anthony Burns | slave seized by slave catchers in Boston |
| Citizens of Boston | In protest of Kan-Neb Act they tried to prevent Anthony Burns from being sent back to slavery |
| Border Ruffians | proslavery bands from MO that battled antislavery forces in Kansas |
| Kansas government | made up of two governments/one for slavery one against |
| Kan. slavery government | said one could be put to death for helping slaves escape |
| Lawrence Kansas | proslavery band raided and burned homes and Free Soil newspaper company |
| Pottawatomie Creek | town raided by antislavery band led by John Brown(5 murdered) |
| Bleeding Kansas | term for condition in Kan. where more than 200 were killed |
| Charles Sumner | abolitionists Senator from Mass. |
| Andrew Butler | elderly SC Senator critized by Sumner |
| Preston Brooks | Sen. Butler's nephew who severely beat Sen Sumner,with a cane, for critizing Sen. Butler |
| Dred Scott | slave whose case for freedom went to the Supreme Ct. |
| Dred Scott decision(Part 1) | Sup. Ct. ruled that Scott was not a citizen and was considered property |
| Dred Scott decision(Part 2) | ruled that Congress could not make laws for territories/thus Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional |
| Impact of Dred Scott decision | It meant that slavery was legal in all the territories |
| 1855-1860 | Dred Scott decision made and John Brown raids Harpers Ferry |
