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battle of gettysburg
Title: battle of gettysburg
Category: History
Details: Words: 433 | Pages: 1.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
battle of gettysburg
In 1861 and 1862, Confederate armies achieved many victories over
their Northern counterparts. By the summer of 1863, General Robert
E. Lee was in command of the Army of Northern Virginia. General
Lee decided upon an invasion of the north, which would pull both
armies from war torn northern Virginia, where most of the fighting had
previously been. By invading the north and particularly, winning the
victory in the north, it might cause disenchanted northerners to
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…showed last 75 words of 433 total…South most of
the time. As a result, the North’s economy came to depend more on
trade than on agriculture. “Such an economy favored the growth of
cities, though most Northerners still live in rural areas.” (McPheron
43) The Northern politicians wanted tariffs, and a large army. The
Southern plantation owners wanted the exact opposite. The
Southerners enjoyed a prosperous agricultural based on slave labor and
wished to keep their old way of life.
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