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Chapter 16
Question | Answer |
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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 |