Graphic title: Major Battles of the Civil War. The graphic shows a map of the eastern United States and a table listing the major battles of the Civil War and the number of casualties (Union and Confederate) in each battle. For the map, the following states are shown as Confederate states: Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, South and North Carolina, and Virginia. The following states are shown to be border states: Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland. The following states are shown as Union states: Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. The following battles are shown to be Confederate victories: Wilson The Battles of Antietam and Gettysburg resulted in some of the highest casualties of the war. What factor most likely influenced these casualty rates in both battles? Their closeness to the Union capital Their closeness to major sea ports Their closeness to Northern trade interests Their closeness to the Confederate capitol

The fact that they were so close to the Union Capitol

Explanation:

The Confederates sent a large force hoping to cripple the union army by taking the Union Capitol. The Union sent a large force to defend hoping to prevent the confederates from taking the capitol, with all these troops and the  fact that the war heavily depended on this battle, there were many casualties.

in 1803 the louisiana purchase took place, doubling the size of the country. by 1840 almost 7 million americans had migrated westward in hopes of securing land and being prosperous. the belief that settlers were destined to expand to the west is often referred to as manifest destiny.

explanation:

from thales, who is often considered the first western philosopher, to the stoics and skeptics, ancient greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for the western intellectual tradition. here, there is often an explicit preference for the life of reason and rational thought. we find proto-scientific explanations of the natural world in the milesian thinkers, and we hear democritus posit atoms—indivisible and invisible units—as the basic stuff of all matter. with socrates comes a sustained inquiry into ethical matters—an orientation towards human living and the best life for human beings. with plato comes one of the most creative and flexible ways of doing philosophy, which some have since attempted to imitate by writing philosophical dialogues covering topics still of interest today in ethics, political thought, metaphysics, and epistemology. plato’s student, aristotle, was one of the most prolific of ancient authors. he wrote treatises on each of these topics, as well as on the investigation of the natural world, including the composition of animals. the hellenists—epicurus, the cynics, the stoics, and the skeptics—developed schools or movements devoted to distinct philosophical lifestyles, each with reason at its foundation.

with this preference for reason came a critique of traditional ways of living, believing, and thinking, which sometimes caused political trouble for the philosophers themselves. xenophanes directly challenged the traditional anthropomorphic depiction of the gods, and socrates was put to death for allegedly inventing new gods and not believing in the gods mandated by the city of athens. after the fall of alexander the great, and because of aristotle’s ties with alexander and his court, aristotle escaped the same fate as socrates by fleeing athens. epicurus, like xenophanes, claimed that the mass of people is impious, since the people conceive of the gods as little more than superhumans, even though human characteristics cannot appropriately be ascribed to the gods. in short, not only did ancient greek philosophy pave the way for the western intellectual tradition, including modern science, but it also shook cultural foundations in its own time.