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Which statement is true about the social category in which many freed slaves found themselves in the years following the Civil War?
It was based on ascribed status.
What was Grants coal miners plan to defeat the confederacy?
This was the Battle of the Crater, during the long siege of Petersburg in 1864. A regiment of Pennslvania miners were impatient at the static nature of the combat, and pointed out how easily they could mine under the Confederate positions and blow the enemy sky high. Grant did not believe it would work, but gave permission for them to start digging the tunnels, just to keep them occupied. Presently the plan began to look more feasible, and General Burnside carefully rehearsed a brigade of black troops in how to exploit the situation - making a point of moving around the side of the crater. At the last moment, the plan was changed, because Grant still thought it would fail, and didn't want to be accused of treating black troops as though they were expendable. Instead, he ordered Burnside to send in another brigade, which was unrehearsed and tried to move across the centre of the crater, where they were massacred by high-lying Confederate guns. To make things worse, the commander of that brigade had dodged the battle altogether, and was found drunk in a rear trench. The Battle of the Crater could have ended the siege - and the war - in 24 hours.
What three nations had immigrants to the United States US after the Civil War?
Before, during and after the US Civil War immigrants from many places in the world found themselves in the United States. Among the most prevalent were immigrants from China, Ireland and Germany.
What happened at Little Round Top?
During the second day of the battle, Gen. G.K. Warren, commander of the Engineers Corps of the Army of Potomac, who was carrying a reconnaissance, found the key position of Little Round Top undefended and immediately disposed that two brigade and one battery of the Fifth Corps had to be deployed there. The order was fulfilled just in time, because the position was after a very short while attacked by Hood's Division. After a bitter struggle the Federal units succeeded in repulsing the Confederates and the Little Round Top remained in Union hands.
How are Napoleon's and Hitler's invasions of Russia similar?
Hitler's invasion of Russia was strikingly similar to Napoleon's 1812 invasion for several reasons:Both H and N attacked Russia while at war with Britain. They both attacked with the intention of forcing Britain into surrender. In 1812, Napoleon invaded Russia because Russia refused to participate in the continental blockade of Britain. In 1941, Hitler told his generals that the best way to defeat Britain would be to remove the last remaining ally in striking distance: the Soviet Union.Both H and N believed the war would be a short one, and intended to have the war be completed after the frontier battles in Poland and the Baltics. They never expected to fight a long war that would stretch into the Winter, and thus, neither supplied their army with the necessary logistical support they required.Both H and N intended to use envelopment (or encirclement) techniques to trap the Russian armies West of the rivers Dnieper and Dvina.In both invasions, the Russians learned the value of retreat as the main strategy of defeating each army. In 1941, Stalin refused to allow front-line divisions to retreat, resulting in massive encirclements. But once he began to listen to his generals, the Red Army began using rear-guard tactics and retreat to draw the Wehrmacht away from supply lines.Both armies of H and N advanced too far and found themselves freezing to death in the Russian Winter. While Napoleon attempted to pull his army out in October of 1812, Hitler ordered his famous "halt order", resulting in continued offensives in 1942 and 1943.
