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New Orleans is a major International Shipping port. Control of New Orleans would bring untold power and opportunities for corruption.
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Did the Union want to control the Mississippi River?
The Mississippi was too huge for the Union so they didnt want to control it!
Why did the Union need to take control of New Orleans?
Control of New Orleans meant control of the Mississippi River and therefore control of the hear land of North America. Jefferson would want to have more power within having New Orleans in his hands to Mississippi River as well.
Why did the union want to control the border states?
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Is it best to fly drive or take a train from Dallas to Memphis or New Orleans?
I would drive due to you can leave when you want and you can control where you go no flight delays or anything like that.
Why would you want to go to Louisiana?
BOURBON STREET in New Orleans!
Why did Jefferson want to amend the Constitution?
Because he wanted to buy orleans and he would send people to orleans and see how it was so he as noisyy
Why did Jefferson want control of New Orleans?
because they wanted new land
What Confederate port did Union Admiral David G Farragut want to attack after New Orleans fell?
Union Admiral David D. Farragut looked to capture the port city of Mobile, Alabama after the fall of New Orleans. The Navy Department however delayed this move. They believed the next point of attack should be at Vicksburg.
Why did the Union want to gain control of Texas during the Civil War'?
Gaining control of Texas would have been a great asset to the Union's war effort for a number of reasons. Texas had ports that opened to the Gulf of Mexico, controlling those ports would have hampered trade and supplies from entering or leaving the ports. Having control of Texas would have given the Union control of important areas of the South on both sides of the Mississippi River.As it turned out, Texas did not become a major battle ground as both armies, North & South were focused east of the Mississippi, in Tennessee and in Virginia.
What two rivers to the Union want to gain control of to split the Confederacy?
The Mississippi river and something else
What city on the Mississippi river did the us want to control of?
The Siege and Capture of Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy in two.
Why did Americans want control of the Oregon country?
why did americans want control of the Oregon country
