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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...

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

Breaches of this then become political tools for opposition parties and candidates, with the government as an employer needing to ...

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

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

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...

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

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...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

one and it is Negligent mal practice. In this form of malpractice there is considered to be no criminal intent or dishonest behavi...

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

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 ...

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...

on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...