The Union army established a labor system in Louisiana and the Mississippi valley that required the emancipated slaves to sign labor contracts for paid wages with white plantation owners.
The capture of Vicksburg contributed to the Union victory in the Civil War because It gave the Union control of major Southern cities and allowed the Union to focus on fighting in border states.
After the loss of Confederate general John C. Pemberton's army at siege at Vicksburg, the Union army was able to controlled the entire Mississippi River and this made the Confederacy split in half.
The significance of the capture of Vicksburg was that its yield the North control of the entire course of the river and enable it to isolate those Confederate states that lay west of the river from those in the east.
However, the Union army also established a labor system in Louisiana and the Mississippi valley that required the emancipated slaves to sign labor contracts for paid wages with white plantation owners.
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