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enormous size.
lack of trees.
semi-arid - little water available.
unpredictable weather, including extremely cold and violent winters.
ferocious winds - the winter 'Northers' and the scorching summer winds.
many areas flat and featureless.
inhabited by locusts and grasshoppers.
inhabited by wolves.
the first all black combat regiment was the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment there's not a definitive answer on who the first African American soldier was.
Even though Segregation was being replaced the southern states did not want blacks to have many rights