The most likely reason that the Confederate army burned Richmond was "<span>c. to make sure Union soldiers could not use Confederate resources," since it was clear that Richmond offered a great number of such resources for the taking. </span>
The foreign policy issue that was a motivation for American intervention in Vietnam was the idea of "containment" which sought to contain communist expansion where it was, as opposed to attempting to eradicate it at the source.
Medgar Evers, a 1954 graduate of Alcorn State University, was assassinated outside of his home in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963.