<span>A. European mistreatment of Africans resulted in hundreds of years of conflict and violence. :)</span>
Virginia was in tatters after a series of battles in the first years of the war, so Lee was hoping to give Virginia some relief and to take the battle North into Northern territory to inflict damage onto the towns of the North. This would have the added benefit of a psychological blow for the North, if they were to lose a battle on their own turf.
Isolationists didn't want to join European schemes or war efforts. The Lend-lease program was a program by the government to help send help to Europe but isolationists wanted to stay on their continent and not participate in any of the affairs there.
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