The Civil Rights Act of 1960 was intended to strengthen voting rights and expand the enforcement powers of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. It included provisions for federal inspection of local voter registration rolls and authorized court-appointed referees to help African Americans register and vote.
<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>
Advantages:
1. They knew the land
2. Good leadership
3. Guerilla Tactics
4. Allies
Disadvantages:
1. Lack of resources
2. Lack of troops
3. Weather
4. Lack of navy
<span>Out of the ancient civilizations the empire which controlled the most land was the Persian Empire. It was under the leadership of Alexander the Great that the Persian Empire was finally conquered. The Empire was connected by a vast series of roads, most famous of which was the Royal Road, and they controlled a fleet of many ships used to conquer surrounding lands.</span>
