Explanation: The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War in that Lee's failure to take the war into the North showed the limitations of the Confederate cause and made it so that the war would be contained to and thus the damages would be felt exclusively in the South.
It was primarily the economic policies of implementing taxes that
contributed to the rebellion of the colonist, especially taxes that came
through the Stamp Act and the Intolerable Acts.