toward the civil war

3. –withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
4. –unable to bend or be forced out of shape, not flexible
8. ruffians –pro slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who in 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas territory
12. of interests to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or pretty distinctions at the expense of general well being.
14. – control or maintain the rate or speed (a machine or process) so that it operates properly
15. person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or prosecution.
17. –a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country person or group
18. matter dealt within a text
19. Sovereignty- the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.

1. –dismiss as inadequate, inappropriate or not to ones taste
2. –lasting for only a limited time; not permanent
5. –certain to happen unavoidable
6. argument of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.
7. –a person who is killed because of their religious beliefs or other beliefs
9. to be right or reasonable
10. –a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after another.
11. rights- the rights and powers held by individual us states rather than by the federal government.
13. war-a war between citizens of the same country
16. –formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion.