Generally speaking, the name for the informal councils, like town meetings, where workers, farmers, and soldiers came together was the Duma, although these were implemented by the Czar.
It might be said that the French explorers learnt how to make boats suitable for the coastal waters, rivers and lakes when they were at the great Lakes. They decided to build small sailing- ships to travel the entire length of the Missouri and the Mississippi River to New Orleans on the golf of Mexico. They built <span>native birch-bark canoes and large rafts.</span>
The key waterways in the south during the civil war were: Mississippi,Ohio and Tennessee rivers
Both side aware that controlling these rivers would cut down oppositions food and weaponry supplies along with limiting the opposition's ability to mobilize. The union army managed to leverage on this situation better than the Confederates, leading to the union's victory during the civil war.
New england was considered to have the poorest economy in the early colonial days
