Praxis II Citizenship

Answer: A - Sherman’s March to the Sea is most closely associated with scorched earth policy, which is a form of attrition warfare. William Tecumseh Sherman was a Union general who carried out that type of military strategy during a campaign in Georgia in late 1864. From November to December of that year, Sherman led his army on a 300-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah, during which his soldiers set fire to and pillaged a five-mile-wide swath of Georgia as they marched across the state. They ultimately caused an estimated $1.4 billion in damage in present-day dollars. Sherman’s March to the Sea is considered by military historians to be the event that shattered the Confederacy’s hope of winning the war.