USA HISTORY

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR(1861 1865)

CIVIL WAR TURNING POINTS

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How did the arrival of Union reinforcements affect the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg?

(A) The Union was able to avoid more casualties

(B) ** The Union was able to hold the line and eventually win

(C) The Confederacy surrendered immediately

(D) The Confederacy had to take a defensive position

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: “The Confederacy surrendered immediately. “ the arrival of Union reinforcements affect the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg is that The Confederacy surrendered immediately.

Concept note-2: -How did the arrival of Union reinforcements affect the outcome of the battle of Gettysburg? The Union was able to avoid more casualties. The Union was able to hold the line and eventually win.

Concept note-3: -Morale can drive an army forward to victory, or drag it to defeat. The Battle of Gettysburg, a military turning point in the war, was also a crisis of motivation and initiative. The carnage lasted three days and as the casualty rate soared, the morale of the armies virtually reversed.

Concept note-4: -Union infantry opened fire on the advancing rebels from behind stone walls while regiments from Vermont, New York and Ohio hit both of the enemy’s flanks. Caught from all sides, barely half of the Confederates survived, and Pickett’s division lost two-thirds of its men.

Concept note-5: -Union victory. Gettysburg ended Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s ambitious second quest to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a swift end. The loss there dashed the hopes of the Confederate States of America to become an independent nation.