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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...

founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

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

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

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

we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War and after perspectives on slavery as viewed by John C. Calhoun, Frederick Douglass...

Civil War historians believe that a majority of Americans felt that forcing the South to remain in the Union when it felt it was n...

only truths that earlier history books illustrated, and in Stampps book we get an even clear picture of the actual circumstances a...

In twenty pages this research leader examines Michael Collins's life and charismatic leadership that would both flourish and be cu...

Twa, who make up about 1% of the population, are the only group actually indigenous to the area (McDonald PG). The Tutsis and the ...

In nine pages this creative essay is told from the point of view of a hypothetical assistant to Mathew Brady, famed Civil War phot...

In six pages this paper discusses the changes in military strategy in the United States that resulted from railroads in a consider...

This paper examines pre Civil War America in an overview of increasing regional tensions, politics, slavery, and the gold rush in ...

In three pages various crises including Coxey's Army and the Pullman train strike are examined as they affected the post Civil War...

who still hold true to the ideal of the South and keep the battle raging in their own life. Putting aside the reality of today and...

In five pages this paper examines the U.S. Civil war and considers the reasons why the North emerged victorious over the South. T...