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

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

in the world, the nation that had not been directly or severely attacked by a foreign enemy since its founding was attacked (The H...

would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...

to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...

civil buildings, there have been a number of issues come to the fore. There are many aspects that have been addressed over...

the bonds of slavery but it did nothing toward meeting their basic needs. The former slaves had no money and no where to live (Mc...

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

African-Americans, women, and men without property, had not always been accorded full citizenship rights in the American Republic ...

views. Generally, the idea of ethnic or racial tolerance takes two approaches; in the one, acceptance consists of ignoranc...

airplanes could dive bomb into more buildings? The purpose of this paper is to lead the student through some arguments reg...

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

Ruiz would have been fully capable of portraying the various moods of Mexican-American and Asian-American culture in the facilitat...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

the slavery imposed upon the Hebrews and the social slavery imposed upon supposedly "free" African Americans were both forms of ri...

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

possessed. But, these opportunities and these rights were more difficult for them to obtain than the average white person. They co...

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

pleas, Socrates will not hear of any escape plans. He points out that, even though the sentence was unjust, it was perfectly legal...

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...