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Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fugitive | person who is running away from legal authority |
| regulate | to control |
| secede | to officially leave an organization |
| network | interconnected system |
| border ruffian | armed pro-slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas |
| civil war | conflict between citizens of the same country |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | a compromise promoted by Senator Stephen A. Douglas that would limit slavery spreading into new territories |
| rigid | firm and inflexible |
| topic | subject of discussion |
| arsenal | a place to store weapons and military equipment |
| martyr | a person who dies for a great cause |
| Lincoln-Douglas Debate | a famous debate between future President Lincoln and Senator Douglas over the expansion of slavery |
| John Brown | a militant man who was a violent abolitionist who caused much blood shed in Kansas and later Harper's Ferry, Virginia |
| secession | withdrawal |
| state's rights | theory that individual states are independent and have the right to control their most important affairs |
| reject | to refuse to accept |
| justify | to find reasons to support |
| Fort Sumter | a federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina that was attacked by Confederate artillery positions from the mainland that caused the American Civil War |
| Fugitive Slave Act | a law that require every state to return runaway slaves |
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