Essays 331 - 360
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...
to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...
had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...
he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...
co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...
those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...
because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...
prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...
the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...
of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...
have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...
unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...
of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...
The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...