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The battle of Locust Grove was a small battle, compared to other battles during the American Civil War. This battle took place on Native American land, due to the fact that they didn't really claim the land yet.
The outcome of the battle of Locust Grove was that the <u>Union won the war</u>. The reason why they won this war is because the Union made a surprise attack against the Confederates, the confederates during the time of the surprise attack were actually split up, so when the attack happened, they would have no time to come together to fight because they were all split up during the fight; giving the Union an advantage during the fight. This attack pretty much applies to the term "It's better to fight in larger groups." The confederates had a hard time during this attack because they were outnumbered by multiple Unions. For example, a confederate could be by themselves while 3 Union members comes and ambush them, and of course the Union would win that small fight because they had more man power, and this pretty much happened during the surprise attack. After the Union beat the confederates, they pretty much took all of their supplies.
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Pol Pot was deeply inspired by Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution of communist China, and he wanted to build his own utopia. The first thing he did was create his own personal army called the Khmer Rouge, a deadly group that could be compared to a secret police, if the secret police were the size of an army. After that, he made a plan to break the class systems and build the perfect communist country. He started by renaming Cambodia the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea. He then began to “purify” society by expelling western influences (such as capitalism), banning all religion and foreign languages , shutting down embassies, not allowing any media or news, limiting communication through mail or phone, closed businesses, shut down school and education, taking away health care, and rejected any foreign economic or medical assistance. Because of this, Cambodia was now sealed off from the outside world.
Then, every city in Cambodia was evacuated by force, and two million people in Phnom Penh had to leave the city on foot at gunpoint and walked to the countryside. During that journey, an estimated 20,000 people died.
Now, millions of the Cambodian city folk were forced to engage in manual slave work in rural areas. They were fed very sparingly, and they quickly began to die from disease, being overworked, and malnourished. This act was nicknamed the “killing fields”.
Meanwhile, many people were being killed to rid the city of the “old society”. People were executed for various reasons, such as being wealthy, their occupation (usually anyone who had anything to do with government, education, or health), and anyone that seemed against this new way of life. They also terrorized minorities, and would torture or kill anyone that was Vietnamese, Chinese, or Cham Muslim.
All of this was because Pol Pot and his followers believed that this was the heart of capitalism, and therefore it had to be eliminated. They felt that to have a perfect communist country, everyone had to be weak and uneducated so that no one could rebel. People who lived in cities were immediately dubbed as an enemy and would be killed.
In the end, his plan failed, but he refused to blame himself. He and his supporters believed that his failure was because of secret spies in his following, or because there were still classes and occasional cities that had wealthy habitants.
Constitution gave the President the power to veto acts of Congress to prevent the legislative branch from becoming too powerful.
