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America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra attention in the 1...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

well as the rising tension of the competitive race between the teams from the East and the West" (Rochman, 1998, p. 908). By the ...

to come from the time period, the many things we take for granted in graphic arts would not be available. Of course, there is anot...

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

additional examples could be presented as well. The most interesting of Dowds examples concern the leadership strategies of the t...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

is evidence that the U.S. actually supported the revolution. Supposedly, President Kennedy uttered words which would be aligned wi...

Sudanese government can be trusted to look after its own citizens there" ("No Help Needed, Thank You Very Much"). The outlook for ...

and in March of 1776 he used a cannon from Henry Knox ("American Revolution - George Washington," 2005). He would make a mistake ...