Chpt 4 VIP's Davis

Chpt 4 VIP's Davis

David Rice Atchison

• Senator from Missouri

• Proslavery

• Encouraged Missourians to cross border and illegally vote in Kansas

Dred Scott

• Sued government for his freedom

• Supreme Court rules African Americans--free or slaves--were not US citizens.

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Ann Clark

Slave in Lecompton, KS

Escaped and used the Underground

Railroad safe houses to ultimately

gain her freedom in Iowa.

Andrew Reeder

• first governor of Kansas Territory

• called for the first census

Samuel Jones

• Proslavery

• First Sheriff of Douglas County

• Many acts of violence erupted between anti/pro slavery settlers in his territory

James Lane

• antislavery

• organized 400 antislavery settlers to move to Kansas

• Led the militia in fighingt proslavery men in Kansas Territory

Multiple Select

____ _____ was the first governor of Kansas Territory.

• Samule Joes

• Andrew Reeder

• John Brown

John Brown

• abolitionist

• used violence to end slavery

• hanged for treason and murder

Multiple Choice

Antislavery supporter who organized 400 settlers to move to Kansas

• Samuel Jones

• John Brown

• James Lane

• Ann Clark

Clarina Nichols

• abolitionist

• supporter of womens rights

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