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Why was the Siege of Vicksburg a major Union victory?

It led to Lincoln’s issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation.

It stopped the South’s northward advancements.

It devastated farmlands in the South.

It gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi.
Siege of Vicksburg

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It gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi.

Capturing Vicksburg (July 1863) split the Confederacy, cut off Texas/Arkansas/Louisiana from the rest of the South, and secured Union control of the Mississippi River—one of the main Union war objectives.