What does estate mean in the context of France in the late 1700s?

What were three advantages the north had in the civil war? it was fighting most battles on home ground. it had a greater number of soldiers. it had more highly skilled military leaders. it had a stronger navy. it had a better network of railroads. pick three .

"august 19th (1864)- how they quarreled and wrangled among themselves- alabama and mississippi, all were loud for joe johnston, save and except the long-haired, one-armed hero, who cried at the top of his voice: "oh! you all want to be kept in trenches and to go on retreating, eh? " "oh, if we had had a leader, such as stonewall (jackson), this war would have been over long ago! what we want is a leader! " shouted a (wounded man). they were awfully smashed-up, objects of misery, wounded, maimed, diseased. i was really upset, and came home ill. this kind of thing unnerves me quite." mary chestnut, a diary from dixie this entry from the diary of mary chestnut illustrates a) the lack of medical technology possessed by the confederacy. b) the military superiority of southern troops in the civil war. c) the effects of the emancipation proclamation on the southern economy and society. d) the loss of morale and confidence by the confederacy towards the end of the civil war.

In 1991, which of the following split into 15 independent republics when its communist government lost power? a) china b) belarus c) germany d) soviet union