Vicksburg AssaultsMay 19 and 22, 1863-Two dramatic assaults occurred against the works surrounding Vicksburg, Mississippi, the key bastion that prevented Union naval supremacy of the Mississippi River. The two attacks cost the Union army 4,100 casualties and no ground gained. However, in the end, extended siege forced the garrison to surrender. On Independence Day, Major General Ulysses Grant seized the city and paroled its starving defenders.
ChancellorsvilleMay 1-3, 1863-Fought in Virginia, this battle was the third bloodiest battle of the war. Although it was a stunning Confederate success, the Army of Northern Virginia lost 22 percent of its force and one of its ablest generals, “Stonewall” Jackson, who had been accidentally shot by his own men on May 2.
What are two similarities between Marx and Lenin's views on Communism?
Answer:1. Western Europe
2. Anglo-Saxons
3. pillage and gift
4. Pepin the Short
5. three
6. Vikings
7. bourgeoisie
8. Investiture
9. pope
10. scholasticism
Explanation:
11. Answers may vary. A sample answer is provided. England was a leader in literacy from its early history. Not only was literacy high in England, their monks also led literacy efforts in Europe. Literacy was key to developing its strong legal and taxation systems that would help the state become stronger.
12. Answers may vary. A sample answer is provided. Important intellectual ideas were developed from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. During the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, scholars translated many Arabic texts into Latin, which made Islamic and ancient Greek scholarship and ideas accessible to the educated classes in Europe. In the thirteenth century, scholastics showed that theological questions could be discussed using logical reasoning. Finally, the European Renaissance introduced humanism, which began to challenge the central place of religious values in society. All three movements built on ideas from the ancient Greeks and Romans.
<span>The purpose of the tea act was to save the faltering East Indian Company from bankruptcy.</span>
The war lasted 3 years so they could not go back to N. America till it was over
