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Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

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

U.S. Civil War and 'Copperheads'

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

Strategy and Weapons in the American Civil War

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

Role of Women During the Civil War

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

'Slave Power,' the North, and the Civil War

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

What it Was Like to Be a Slave Before the Civil War

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

The Battle of Antiem

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

Union and Confederacy Battle Plans During the Civil War

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

Political Systems Comparison

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

Reconstruction Era's Early and Late Stages

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

Public Bureaucracies and Their 5 Subsystems

support from external groups (Halpin and Cox, 2000). The third influence is seen as moving down the hierarch greater levels of spe...

An Evaluation of the U.S. Legal System

that the rage that the public feels toward lawyers is generated is not generated by the trial lawyers obligation to defend the gui...

The Causes of Civil Wars and Solutions

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...

March 9, 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads and its Importance

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

US Civil War ans the Northern and Southern 'Home Fronts'

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

Political and Economic Reasons Why The South Lost The Civil War

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...

The Sudanese Civil War

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

Analyzing the Ferocious and Prolonged Civil War Combat of 1861 Until 1865

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...

A World War II Submarines History

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

1820 and 1850 Compromises

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...

Causes Initiating the Civil War

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

Military Strategic Changes Influenced by Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Gay Marriage Beyond Vermont

given full faith and credit, and that the DOMA itself violates the Fifth Amendments Equal Protection Clause as well as the Full Fa...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

Africa's Economic Stagnation and the State and Civil Dichotomy

definition the implication is a community in which politics does not intrude unnecessarily, rather than one in which all citizens ...

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience

it is immoral to allow oneself to be associated with a gross injustice. In his essay, Thoreau refers particularly to the Mexican W...

The Paranoia That Led to the American Civil War

admittance was a critical one. At the time the scale was essentially balanced between those states that supported slavery and tho...

Revolutionary Government of America and Two Treatises on Civil Government by John Locke

a rewording of Lockes description of the state of nature: "We must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a s...

How the Civil War Shaped and Defined Abraham Lincoln

necessary institution but also as a just one. They took the stance that white slave owners were entitled to own slaves as a part o...