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. . . 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 ...

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...

Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

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

the "things" searched go beyond the business records as the Department of Justice notes, and means that it can search "any tangibl...

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...

crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...

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...

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

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

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

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...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

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

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...

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 ...

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...