General Robert E. Lee decided to invade the North through Pennsylvania in order to
a. deliver a decisive blow that would strengthen the Northern peace movement and encourage foreign intervention on behalf of the South.
b. force the Union to ease its blockade of the South.
c. cut Northern supply lines.
d. stir northern draft resisters to rise in revolt.
e. seize Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
a
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