C. Vicksburg the capture of the Mississippi river effectively cut off both ends of the confederacy from each other.
As a result of the French and Indian War, Britain received Florida from Spain and Canada from France, while France maintained its West Indies colonies and Spain received Louisiana from France.
The majority of these documents relate to two seminal events in which Madison played a major role: the drafting and ratification of the Constitution of the United States (1787-8) and the introduction (1789) in the First Federal Congress of the amendments that became the Bill of Rights
