<span>From November 15 until December 21, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman led some 60,000 soldiers on a 285-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. The purpose of this “March to the Sea” was to frighten Georgia’s civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause. Sherman’s soldiers did not destroy any of the towns in their path, but they stole food and livestock and burned the houses and barns of people who tried to fight back. The Yankees were “not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people,” Sherman explained; as a result, they needed to “make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.”</span>
The answer would be the Renaissance Humanists. They were tasked with the study and preservation of works of the time.
Question 6 and the 17th amendment
1) PATRIOTISM
Americans fought for their freedom so their motivation was unstoppable.
2) WAR WAS ON OUR TERRITORY
Americans knew the layout of their land.
3) FRENCH
The French helped the Americans with supplies and weapons.
