What geographical fact made it especially important that Texas join the Confederacy?

Question

Help! Can anyone answer any of these question?

1. What geographical fact made it especially important that Texas join the Confederacy?

2. What problems would have been created for the Union if the border states had seceded?

4. Why did the western region of Virginia remain in the Union?

5. What was the basic strategy of the Confederacy?

6. Why did the Union place such emphasis on controlling the Mississippi River valley?

7. What was the strategic significance of the Battle of Vicksburg?

8. Explain the effect of the fall of Atlanta on the Confederacy.

9. What was the significance of Sherman's "march to the sea"?

Answer 1

1) They were rich in oil.

2) Countless problems would have been created. The country was breaking apart.

3) No clue.

4) Mike Vick was president, and they were being attacked by pit bulls.

5) Fight the union to remain independent. They were not trying to conquer the union and take over the North, they wanted the south to be a separate nation with an economy based on the slave trade.

6) The lower Mississippi River was a great transportation source for the confederacy.

7) Again with the Michael Vick thing? I thought we were beyond this.

8) It was a devastating blow. Sherman made an example of Atlanta bay pillaging and the torching it to the ground. The war was effectively over by this point, but the destruction of Atlanta broke the back of the confederacy.

9) As Sherman Marched through the Confederacy, east to the shore, he allowed his men to completely pillage the towns they marched through. His men viewed it as payback for the south having started the war in the first place.

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Answer 2

1) it's juxtaposition to the Gulf of Mexico, making much larger the area the Union would have to blockade
2) which border States do you speak of?
4) I don't know
5) Except for the incursion into Pennsylvania, the knowledge that it had a force superior in its fighting ability, but infinitely smaller than the force that it faced caused a lot of hit and run tactics to be employed. Most in the North and the South thought the war would be over in weeks if not months. The hit and run tactics proved ultimately futile in a war of attrition. The largest major frontal assault(Gettysburg) was a Confederate disaster.
6) because of the transportation(troops and goods)it provided
7) The hills of Vicksburg provided a place to protect the upper 2/3 of the Mississippi River from
9) The effect was twofold. On the one hand, disheartening the Confederacy and cutting what was left of it in half. On the other hand energizing what was left of its army. William Tecumsah Sherman was hailed as a hero in the North and as a scourge in the South

Answer 3

1. it was close to lousiana

2. problems with mexico helping the confederacy

4. there were more northern sympathizers there

6. it was a vital transporation route for the south

7. the loss of vicksburg essentially cut the confederacy in two.

8. atlanta was the hub of the souths industry. the loss of atlanta ruined that

9. sherman devastated the south during that march. he burned and looted the civilians homes.

Answer 4

i shall answer all these questions for you... you ask too much... but the answer to the first question is the fact that it was in the south... your teacher is an idiot