CH14 Towards Civil War Vocabulary

If something is controlled it is ___________.

• regulated

• negative

• ruffian

• fugitive

A person who is running away from legal authority is

• a slave.

• a fugative.

• a ruffian.

• in trouble.

...neither Congress nor any territorial government could ban slavery from a territory or _________ (control) it.

• approve

• regulate

• record

• reform

Southerners talked about ________ from, or leaving, the Union.

• regulating

• fugitive

• joining

• seceding

an armed supporter of slavery who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas during the mid-1850s

• rebel-rousers

• mercenaries

• border ruffians

• John Brown

state between the North and South that was divided over whether to remain in the Union or join the Confederacy

• Republicans

• undecideds

• border state

• Free-Soilers

a network is

• an interconnected system

• a set of channels on the television

• a joint business

• a branch of the federal government

A ________ is a war between citizens of the same country.

• conflict

• civil war

• global war

• national war

something that is firm and inflexible is

• rigid

• maliable

• translucent

• flexible

an arsenal is

• a run-away slave

• strategic military target

• advanced weaponry

• a storage site for weapons