<span>D. Raising union morale and damaging confederate morale
Vicksburg was a major trading town and the gateway to the Western confederacy, so the loss of it split the confederacy up, isolating the capitol in Virginia. This also disrupted the flow of trade and transportation of materials, which would affect the rest of the war.</span>
by going into the brink of war
The most likely reason that the United Kingdom has the largest shipping losses is that of the fact that the United Kingdom had the largest navy and because of this, the aforementioned fact also led to the increase in losses of the shipping of the United Kingdom.
B, because African Americans and women didn't have the right to vote until later on