Blockades blocked the south from getting any supplies or weapons. They were surrounded and could not keep a fair fight. Lee knew this, thus leading to the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.
The correct answer is national unity.
This speech was given just one month before the official end of the American Civil War. This war caused significant fighting between the Union and the Confederacy. This war caused the deaths of thousands of American citizens on both sides. As this war was winding down, Lincoln knew that these Confederate States would eventual become part of the US again. To ease this transition, he discusses how the US must "bind up the nation's wounds." When using this phrase, Lincoln is referring to how the Confederate and Union states must work together in order to unite the US once again.
The correct answer is A. The Great Schism or the East-West Schism represented the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches (whose leader was Michael Cerularius, the <u><em>patriarch of Constantinople</em></u>) and the Western one whose leader was Leo IX. There were excommunications that ended in 1965, when Pope <em>Paul VI</em> and <em>Athenagoras I</em> revoked the excommunications decrees.
