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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...

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

argues that "Common sense, the necessities of the war, to say nothing of the dictation of justice and humanity have at last prevai...

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 ...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

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

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

one needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of civil service politics; however, it can also be c...

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

of these norms. Although individual identity is also defined along subcultural lines in urban society, researchers must also be aw...

as the real measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not ...

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

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

were carried out by women who had, had it with the system which had failed to protect them from an abusive spouse. Says Nadler, "F...

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...