In 1863, General Edmund Kirby Smith took command of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department, and unsuccessfully tried to relieve the siege of Vicksburg by Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant on the opposite eastern banks of the Mississippi River in the state of Mississippi.
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The answer is b, a union general who later become the 18th president on the united states.
4. Cotton Gin harvested cotton
5. Because the cotton gin could harvest so much more, cotton farmers would buy and work more slaves for more profit.
6. A few major ones were immigration, making railroads, and using tariffs to ward foreign countries away from competing with the American market.
7. Industrial Revolution, I think the answer they want you to give is being blocked off from trading with England and France.
