religious leaders attempted to resolve the iconoclast controversy through the formation of religious councils. Specifically, the Council of Nicaea, which was attended by the delegates of Pope Adrian the I and came to the conclusion that that icons deserved reverence, but not adoring worship.
The purpose was justifying breaking away from britian and explaining the reasons for becoming independent
The major and initial strategy of the northern states was A. attrition. The North had far more troops than the South, and it was assumed that the South would eventually lose too many men and give up.
Well it depends do you mean how they are warned now or back then ?
Now: NHC issues a hurricane warning 36 hours in advance of tropical storm-force winds to give you time to complete your preparations
Back then: not sure on what the steps were but here is information about it—hurricane warning service was set up in the early 1870s from Cuba with the work of Father Benito Vines, who served as director of the Meteorological Observatory of the Royal College of Belén. He established a network of observation sites and developed the first method to forecast tropical cyclone movement,