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Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Their Differences

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

Q and A Format on Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy by Moore

revolutions each culminating in democracy, fascism and communism respectively (413-414). Winners are those who gain power and the ...

United States After the Civil War and Considerations of Economics, Workers' Rights, and Ethnicity

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

2 Countries and Human Rights

political opposition, it is doing so by making public examples of dissidents rather than acting covertly....

US Civil War and the Gatling Gun

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

Civil Rights Act of 1964's Title VII

cropped up as a result of Title VII. People with religious beliefs sometimes refuse to wear hats or certain clothing that is a req...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

Brown v. Board of Education Case Decision and its Effects

However, the victory that Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka represented in the Black community did not carry over to the major...

1964 Civil Rights Act

(1957), for example, argued that the basis for separation and discrimination was linked to the fact that employees did not want to...

Balancing Intrusion by the Government and Safety

She is right in this evaluation. During the Second World War, the U.S. supported Japanese internment camps. It was something that ...

Were the Confederate States Manipulated into Striking First by President Abraham Lincoln?

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

Confederate Women During The American Civil War

actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...

Comparative Analysis of Volumes I and II of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

of the lower classes in civilized countries. This, then, is one of the central themes to Volume one, which is the nature of equali...

Italian Contact Law and Revoking an Offer

In twenty pages this paper considers the Italian Civil Code in an examination of revoking a contract. Twelve sources are cited in...

Colombia's History Since its Independence

these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...

U.S. Civil Liberties, the 'Red' Scare, and the Cold War

been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...

U.S. Civil War and the Impact of Photography

one would have to mix the chemicals and take charge of developing the photographs on the spot. The focusing and positioning of the...

Civil Rights and Differing Perceptions Contained Within Congressional Committee on Domestic Affairs Testimony

when the nation was desperately trying to establish policies and procedures which would act to protect the rights of the freed sla...

U.S. Civil War and Styles of Reconstruction

how Presidential reconstruction was focused on rapid healing, and then discusses how Radical reconstruction was aimed at designing...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

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...

Exploring the Civil War's Causes

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

U.S. Civil War and Abraham Lincoln

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

Economy During the Civil War and Reconstruction Era

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

African Americans and the Civil War's Effects

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

US Civil War's Turning Points

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

Jews in PA

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

Foreign Affairs During the Civil War

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

Why Democracy is Difficult

others; and America is comprised of people of differing educational attainment. If these traits are in fact necessary for democrac...

Colonization, Economic Development, Geographical Distinctions and the American Civil War

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...