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=​ **Chapter Vocabulary** =

 Abolitionist: a person who wanted to bring about the immediate end of slavery 

Antislavery: opposed to practice of slavery

Border Ruffian: Missouri settlers who crossed into Kansas to influence the outcome of the slavery issue

Bushwhacker: Missouri settlers who raided anti-slavery settlements in Kansas

Demographic: relating to the study of the characteristics of human populations

Expansionist: the practice or policy of territorial or economic expansion

Free-stater: a settler who believed Kansas should not allow slavery

Indentured Servant: a person who is bonded or contracted to work for another person for a specific time

Jayhawker: a free-soil, or Unionist guerrilla in Kansas and Missouri during the border disputed

Martyr: one who chooses to suffer death rather than his or her beliefs

Popular Sovereignty: the concept that political and legislative power resides with the citizens

Pro-slavery: supportive of the practice of slavery

Repeal: to revoke

Siege: the surrounding and blockading of a city or town by an army attempting to capture it

Servitude: a state of subjection to an owner or manager

Speculator: someone who invests financially in something, with the possibility of great gains or losses

Transcontinental: spanning or crossing of a continent

Treason: violation of allegiance towards one's country

Unconstitutional: not in accord with the principles set forth in the constitution of a nation or state