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

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

In seven pages this paper examines civil disobedience as envisioned by MLK and the lack of conformity of Gandhi to this view. Fou...

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

permission. Abraham Lincoln promoted the Platonic view in his Gettysburg Address in saying that the government should be "of the ...

provides a more peaceful perspective and make environmental civil disobedience known. Civil disobedience in many ways highlights t...

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

conditions as they relate to the white man instilling religion into the slaves of the South. "In the 1780s, Methodists--who repr...

of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of th...

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

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

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

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

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...

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

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

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

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