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boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...