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Define the term: expansionist

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The practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion

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Define the term: guerrilla warfare

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Military actions by a small fighting force against a larger force

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"I have a hundred men from Kansas in this crowd, all armed, all fighting men, just from the victorious fields of Kansas!” - James Lane

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Kansans were prepared to fight on behalf of the Union

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The Union controlled more territory than the Confederacy.

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True

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Impact of the Pony Express and the expansion of transcontinental telegraph lines

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Conflicts in the Kansas Territory gained national attention

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“Gentlemen, this is a memorable day, and may become more so. Your acts will be the means of lighting the watch-fires of war in our land.”

The speaker, an antislavery territorial legislator, would most likely agree with which statement? 

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The actions of the proslavery territorial government were likely to lead to violence

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Preston Brooks

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Caning of an antislavery senator on the senate floor

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Reason for John Brown’s decision to capture Henry C. Pate and 22 other men

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To secure the freedom of his two sons held hostage by proslavery settlers

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Reason proslavery leaders in Missouri urged settlers to move to Kansas

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To prevent Missouri from sharing a border with a free state

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Goal of speculators in the Kansas Territory

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To buy inexpensive land and resell it at a higher price