The orders were to take everything that they can, and burn and ruin everything that they can't take. The idea was to destroy infrastructure completely so as to weaken the southern population and the southern support for the war. They would burn farms and pillage everything leaving nothing standing.
This is a little tricky but if i had to say, the answer would be A ^-^ The Civil War still hadn't been that long ago, so people of different races still didn't have the same rights as the whites (hence segregation)
The constitution declared the independence of the 13 colonies from Great Britain and explained the transgressions placed against them by King George the third
The far west of the North American continent was inhabited by the native Americans and the French.
That's why <span>the original 13 colonies did not extend too far west into the north american continent as they wanted to avoid war with the French and Native Americans.</span>