Idk Flashcards
What is a tariff?
A tax on imports
Good for northern factory owners
Bad for southern plantation owners
Fugitive
What the south considered an enslaved person who escaped from the south to a free state
Emancipate
Free
Secede
To leave the union
Address
A speech
Underground Railroad
System of secret escape routes that led enslaved people to free lands
Strategy
A long range plan to reach a goal
Union strategy
Blockade southern ports to weaken south
Anaconda Plan
Confederate plan
Defend the south and make north tired so they don’t want to fight
Union army advantages
Larger number of soldiers
Better railroad system
Confederacy advantages
Better leaders and soldiers with more outdoor experience
Abraham Lincoln
His election led South Carolina to secede from the union
Didn’t plan to free slaves when the war started
Gave Gettysburg Address to dedicate cemetery
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth 5 days after the war ended
Lincolns plan to weaken the south
Blockade ports to stop south from receiving weapons and supplies
Emancipation Proclamation
Freed slaves in areas still fighting the union
Fred Scott case
He argued to be free because he once lived in a free state where slavery wasn’t allowed
Outcome- Supreme Court said enslaved people didn’t have rights as American citizens
Henry Clay
Suggested the Missouri compromise
Battle of bull run
When confederate troops won it shocked the north
North realized war would go on longer than they thought
Battle of Antietam
General Lee and confederate troops retreated to Virginia
Lees hope of invading north was ended
Battle of Gettysburg
Lee led confederate army in one more attempt to invade the north
