toward the civil war

3. matter dealt within a text
4. –unable to bend or be forced out of shape, not flexible
9. person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or prosecution.
10. war-a war between citizens of the same country
11. –withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
14. of interests to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or pretty distinctions at the expense of general well being.
16. –a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country person or group
17. – control or maintain the rate or speed (a machine or process) so that it operates properly
18. rights- the rights and powers held by individual us states rather than by the federal government.

1. Sovereignty- the principle that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people.
2. to be right or reasonable
5. –certain to happen unavoidable
6. –lasting for only a limited time; not permanent
7. –a number of people or things sharing a specified characteristic and following one after another.
8. –formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion.
12. argument of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines.
13. ruffians –pro slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri, who in 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas territory
15. –a person who is killed because of their religious beliefs or other beliefs
17. –dismiss as inadequate, inappropriate or not to ones taste