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General McClellan’s most grievous error was hugely overestimating Confederate numbers. This delusion dominated his military character. In August 1861, taking command of the Army of the Potomac, he began entirely on his own to over-count the enemy’s forces. Later he was abetted by Allan Pinkerton, his inept intelligence chief, but even Pinkerton could not keep pace with McClellan’s imagination. On the eve of Antietam, McClellan would tell Washington he faced a gigantic Rebel army “amounting to not less than 120,000 men,” outnumbering his own army “by at least twenty-five per cent.”
Explanation:
Few black or white Americans were prepared to join a rebellion led by a fanatical abolitionist.
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The Fourth Crusade was called by Pope Innocent III to retake Jerusalem from its current Muslim overlords.
Explanation:
The correct answer is 15,000 people.
The Scientific Revolution (17th century) changed and challenged current beliefs of the time by establishing what we know today as the scientific method and a scientific view of the world. That is, it established the meaning and importance of science that we use and believe until today with slight changes.
This revolution showed that the world can be understood and that laws of nature can be discovered through the scientific method. It established the scientific practice of observation, empirical experiment, and theorization of laws.
It was during this revolution that human agency to understand the world became more important than a Christian view of the world as something revealed by sacred texts.