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Essays 151 - 180
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave 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...
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...
the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...
he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...
gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...
alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...
causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...
Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...
the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...
we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...
2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...
or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
"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...
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...
by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...
lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...
notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...
Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...