Kansas

Question 1

How did Kansas earn the nickname “Bleeding Kansas” in the 1850s?

Answer 1

the violence during the Kansas Nebraska act.

Question 2

What were the “Bogus Elections?”

Answer 2

Missouri rigged the elections in Kansas to make it a free state by sending men to vote for slavery in Kansas.

Question 3

Who was David Rice Atchison?

Answer 3

senator from missouri who lead a lot of missourians to vote to elect to get slavery in kansas

Question 4

Who were the Border Ruffians?

Answer 4

People who illegally voted to get slavery in Kansas

Question 5

What was the Wakarusa War?

Answer 5

A pro slavery sheriff in Lawrence that set up a blockade around the city.

Question 6

Who were the Jayhawkers and what did they do?

Answer 6

Jayhawkers were abolitionist who fought to get kansas to become a free state. They fought with the bushwhackers along the border of kansas and missouri

Question 7

Who were the Bushwhackers and what did they do?

Answer 7

Missouri pro slavery men who fought to get Kansas to be a pro slavery state

Question 8

Who was James Lane?

Answer 8

He was an abolitionist who moved to Kansas to fight the border war with his 400 men.