Ch 14: Causes of The Civil War

Radical abolitionists attack a federal armory in Virginia.

• John Browns Raid

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Kansas Nebraska Act

• The Civil War

To control or supervise something within the law

• regulate

• relate

• rule

• relegate

A person(s) escaping arrest or prosecution.

• fugitive

• escapee

• criminal

• martyr

To leave a political union

• secede

• succeed

• seed

• serenade

A person or persons who dies for a cause.

• martyr

• Civil War

• fugitive

• regulator

A major, violent conflict between competing forces within a nation.

• martyr

• Civil War

• fugitive

• regulator

Proslavery raiders who crossed from the slave state of Missouri into the Kansas Territory.

• Border Ruffians

• John Brown

• Abolitonists

• Bleeding Kansas

Admitted two new states into the Union,

but did not address slavery in any real way.

• States Rights

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision

• Civic Participation

African Americas are ruled to have no rights under the US Constitution

• States Rights

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision

• Civic Participation

The process of aiding democracy, voting, volunteering and jury duty are examples.

• States Rights

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision

• Civic Participation