1. Lee believed that he needed a victory in Northern soil in order for the Confederacy to survive.
2. On July 1, 1863, the Confederate won a tactical victory causing the Federal troops to take position on Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge, just south of Gettysburg.
3. Confederate troops were already in Gettysburg trying to determine the strength of the Union presence in the town. By mid-morning, while the Northern troops were fighting off the Confederate infantry, more Union reinforcements arrived so Lee decided to commit fully to the battle.
4. General Lee lost the battle at Gettysburg.
5. The Union troops held strong positions from Cemetery Hill to Culp's Hill.
6. Lee believed that they had won the previous day's battle.
7. Picket's division lost 2/3 of its men and they were driven back by the Union forces.
8. False.
9. Lee lost a third of his army with around 23,000 casualties.
This quote comes from the now famous Four Freedoms speech, delivered by Roosevelt as the State of the Union address on January 6, 1941. The international context was very negative. Hitler and his Axis allies were winning in Europe. Britain was greatly menaced and the Japanese were gearing up for all-out war in the Pacific and in Asia.
Roosevelt, aware that scientific progress had eliminated the physical advantage of the USA being separated from Europe and Asia by such vast expanses of water had been arming and funding the British for years and had also increased military spending and the Navy in order to keep Japan at bay.
He knew that once Hitler had conquered Europe and Japan had conquered the East, all the populations and resources of these vast reasons would be used to directly attack the USA, which would eventually find itself in numeric inferiority so in order to prevent such a dark future he chose to send weapons, supplies and money to the British.
The economic roots of the Civil War reach almost to the beginning of English settlement in North America. The development of an economy based on the use of slave labor to produce staple crops through a plantation system in the South and a more diverse economy in the North based on free labor set the stage for the development of two economies within one country. Increasingly after 1800, the needs of these two economies were incompatible.
