Bleeding Kansas

Widely held belief that settlers in the US were destined to expand across North America

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Manifest Destiny

• Underground Railroad

Name given to settlers in Kansas Territory during the "Bleeding Kansas" period in the 1850s who opposed the expansion of slavery.

• Bushwackers

• Jayhawkers

• Free staters

• Border ruffians

A network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Manifest Destiny

• Abolitionist

• Underground Railroad

Pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who crossed the state border into Kansas Territory to force the acceptance of slavery there. They interfered in territorial elections, and attacked Free-State settlements.

• Abolitionist

• Border ruffians

• Jayhawker

• Free stater

Declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

• Jayhawkers

• Underground Railroad

• Manifest Destiny

• Emancipation Proclamation

People who belonged to a movement to end slavery.

• Abolitionists

• Border ruffians

• Jayhawkers

• Bushwackers

Militant groups connected with the free-state cause during the American Civil War.

• Jayhawkers

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Abolitionists

• Border ruffians

A radical abolitionist that believed slavery must be stopped by force. He led a group of anti- slavery volunteers in Kansas.

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

• Gordon Parks

• John Brown

A law that required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they escaped to a free state.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Manifest Destiny

• Underground Railroad

The Kansas-Nebraska Act made slavery possible in Kansas Territory.

• True

• False