NO LINKS ASAP EXAMS Which excerpt from President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address best reflects the Union goal of preventing the United States from breaking apart? O A. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. O B. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. C. We can not hallow... this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it. D. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty SUBMIT​

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because of its location and commercial importance, atlanta was used as a center for military operations and as a supply route by the confederate army during the civil war. therefore, it also became a target for the union army. general william tecumseh sherman and his troops captured the city in 1864.

union blockade

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the union blockade in the american civil war was a naval strategy by the united states to prevent the confederacy from trading.

the blockade was proclaimed by president abraham lincoln in april 1861, and required the monitoring of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of atlantic and gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably new orleans and mobile. those blockade runners fast enough to evade the union navy could only carry a small fraction of the supplies needed. they were operated largely by british citizens, making use of neutral ports such as havana, nassau and bermuda. the union commissioned around 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war.