The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because
a. it revived Southern military fortunes and hopes for an ultimate military victory of the Union.
b. it guaranteed Lincoln's re-election in 1864.
c. Philadelphia and New York were safe from attack.
d. Lee's military genius and right-hand man, Stonewall Jackson, was killed.
e. Union victory meant that the Southern cause was doomed.
Question 2
The most politically consequential of the responses by the American colonists to the Intolerable Acts was
a. a rejection of the Quebec Act by the colonial legislatures.
b. the summoning of the First Continental Congress in 1774.
c. the Boston Massacre.
d. the closing of Boston Harbor by the Massachusetts colonial assembly.
e. call for a complete break with Great Britain and a declaration of independence.
In 2008, the U.S. economy suffered a gaping wound as several trillion dollars were ripped out of it.
Battle scene from The Birth of a Nation, directed by D. W. Griffith.
By 2100, significant change will be in the far northern latitudes, parts of Asia, and Sub-Saharan
United States, southwestern and southern states are suffer from a significant decrease in rainfall
Retroauricular Ecchymosis (Battle's Sign)