If the north could get control of the Mississippi River it would cause several problems for the south

Control of the Mississippi River gave strategic advantage to the side that had it. That´s the meaning of the Battle of Vicksburg in 1863. With Vicksburg in its hold, the North could control all the navigation, trade, people´s movement, impede smuggling of arms, food and weapons for the Confederacy, and the South stayed divided into two halves (a military disadvantage). That´s why the Confederate president Jefferson Davis said that it was "the key to the South." After the fall of Vicksburg and the crushing defeat in Gettysburg, the Confederacy cause was practically doomed, it was a matter of time for its final defeat.

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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.   : )