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to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...

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

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

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

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

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

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...

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

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

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

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

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

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...

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...

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