Chapter 16 vocabulary

A fugitive is...

• someone who runs away from legal authority

• armed pro-slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to Kansas

• a person who dies for a great cause

• interconnected system of people

to officially leave an organization or country

• justify

• secede

• justify

• border ruffian

armed pro-slavery supporter who crossed the border from Missouri to vote in Kansas

• secession

• civil war

• Border Ruffian

• states' rights

conflict or war with citizens of the same country

• civil war

• martyr

• arsenal

• fugitive

a place to store weapons and military equipment

• arsenal

• network

• secession

• justify

martyr

• a person who dies for a great cause

• conflict between citizens of the same country

• place to store weapons and military equipment

• interconnected system of people

secession

• withdrawal

• states' rights

• network

• fugitive

theory that individual states are independent and have the right to control their most important business

• network

• border ruffian

• arsenal

• states' rights

reasons to support something

• martyr

• network

• secede

• justify

interconnected system of people (think about the Underground Railroad)

• civil war

• fugitive

• network

• arsenal