What can people understand more about what artist intended with a piece and what meaning it might have

What can help people understand more about what an artist intended with a piece and what meaning that piece might have is the context (both of creation and of reception). The context of creation is the setting - political, social, economic, cultural, religious, philosophical - in which a work of art was produced, and the context of reception refers to the original and the subsequent scenarios in which the work of art was exhibited, experienced, and appropriated. Since works of art are shaped by that context, they are a reflection of it, or they simply arise from it (as much as from the artist's genius and creativity), knowing more about it can truly help to better understand the original artistic intentions and meaning of specific works of art, particularly of those that were created hundreds of years ago, as well as the subsequent interpretations by later generations of viewers.  

3. republican abraham lincoln

4. south carolina

5. charleston, south carolina

6. confederates

7. minie bullet - made defense even safer, it spun faster, traveled further and was five times more accurate than any single-man weapon. able to kill at half a mile, it was the largest contributor to battle wounds

      or the the gatling gun - the most successful of several rapid-fire guns that were born before the war. its efficiency in killing only made war more deadly.

idk which one u learned about. pick one.

8. the south was fighting to maintain its way of life, whereas the north was fighting to maintain a union. so they had will, and the north were fighing on unfamiliar territory

9. union had the large population, people to fight in the war and work in the factories to make war materials, industrial base, the factories to make these war materials. the union also was wealthier than the confederacy and could finance the war.

10. stonewall jackson

11. chancellorsville

12. gettysburg

13. sherman

some of these might be wrong but i tried my best.   : )

where is the cartoon dude