Compromise? NO.
Person who is running away from legal authority
Fugitive
A place to store weapons and military equipment
Arsenal
Withdrawl
Secession
Interconnected system
Network
Slave who sued in the Supreme Court for his freedom; specified he should have been freed due to his having been enslaved in a free territory
Dredd Scott
To officially leave an organization
Secede
A person who dies for a cause
Martyr
Theory that individual states are independent and have the right to control their most important affairs
State's rights
The president that preceded Abraham Lincoln; did little to keep the Union together
James Buchanan
A compromise suggested by Henry Clay, designed to keep peace between free and slave states
Compromise of 1850
Armed pro-slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas
Border ruffian
Firm and inflexible
Rigid
To refuse to accept
Reject
The 16th President of the United States; served during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
An act that allowed the fining or imprisonment of people who helped escaped slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
Conflict between citizens of the same country
Civil war
Subject of discussion
Topic
To find reasons to support
Justify
A fort located in South Carolina; where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. Thanks, cadidiots.
Fort Sumter
Debates of 1856 that painted Lincoln as an even-headed and fair figure that helped cement his future 1860 run as President
Lincoln-Douglas debates
To control
Location of John Brown's attempted raid on a federal arsenal
Harpers Ferry
A union of seceding states that broke away from the United States with the aim of keeping slavery legal
Confederate States of America
The name of the fighting in Kansas preceding the Civil War
Bleeding Kansas
West Virginia
A state that had been part of a Confederate state but then seceded itself and become a part of the Union