Kansas Becomes a State

Match the following terms to their correct definitions. ___ Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The idea that settlers of a territory should decide whether slavery is allowed

• A violent period in Kansas where pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed

• A pro-slavery constitution proposed for Kansas statehood

• A law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular vote

• Pro-slavery Missourians who illegally voted in Kansas elections

Match the following terms to their correct definitions. ___ Popular Sovereignty

• Anti-slavery settlers who opposed slavery in Kansas

• A law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular vote

• A violent period in Kansas where pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed

• The idea that settlers of a territory should decide whether slavery is allowed

• Pro-slavery Missourians who illegally voted in Kansas elections

Match the following terms to their correct definitions. ___ Bleeding Kansas

• A law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular vote

• A violent period in Kansas where pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed

• Pro-slavery Missourians who illegally voted in Kansas elections

• Anti-slavery settlers who opposed slavery in Kansas

• The idea that settlers of a territory should decide whether slavery is allowed

Match the following terms to their correct definitions. ___ Border Ruffians

• A violent period in Kansas where pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed

• The idea that settlers of a territory should decide whether slavery is allowed

• A law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular vote

• Anti-slavery settlers who opposed slavery in Kansas

• Pro-slavery Missourians who illegally voted in Kansas elections

Match the following terms to their correct definitions. ___ Free-Staters

• A pro-slavery constitution proposed for Kansas statehood

• A law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular vote

• The idea that settlers of a territory should decide whether slavery is allowed

• Pro-slavery Missourians who illegally voted in Kansas elections

• A violent period in Kansas where pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed

Match the following terms to their correct definitions. ___ Lecompton Constitution

• A violent period in Kansas where pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed

• The idea that settlers of a territory should decide whether slavery is allowed

• A law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular vote

• Pro-slavery Missourians who illegally voted in Kansas elections

• An abolitionist who led attacks against pro-slavery settlers

Match the following terms to their correct definitions. ___ John Brown

• A law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular vote

• An abolitionist who led attacks against pro-slavery settlers

• A violent period in Kansas where pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed

• Pro-slavery Missourians who illegally voted in Kansas elections

• The idea that settlers of a territory should decide whether slavery is allowed

Match the following terms to their correct definitions. ___ Sacking of Lawrence

• A violent period in Kansas where pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed

• The idea that settlers of a territory should decide whether slavery is allowed

• A law that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide on slavery by popular vote

• The 1856 attack on an anti-slavery town by pro-slavery forces

• Pro-slavery Missourians who illegally voted in Kansas elections

This law (act) opened the Kansas and Nebraska territory to being possible slave states 

• Fugitive Slave Act 
• Bleeding Kansas
• Missouri Compromise 
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 

People fought each other over the Kansas-Nebraska Act. True or False?

• True

• False