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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 ...

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

when he suspended individual liberties, and closed down anti-war and anti-administration newspapers (24). Not only did he do that,...

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...

Americas people. Creating a government that was for the people and by the people is what was going to promote both individual and...

particularly concerning territorial expansionism; effective deterrent of despotism; and greater efficiency because concentrated e...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Reconstruction policies of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson for after the Ci...

two was difficult. Healing did not come quickly or easily. Hatred between the two entities continued to exist. The South did no...

In twenty five pages this paper examines the slavery and race issues that culminated in the U.S. Civil War and examines the Jim Cr...

as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the South won the Reconstruction despite the Northern victory in the Civil War, discussing st...

of Negroes were literate." Slavery had given few opportunities to develop initiative or to think independently. A writer for Harp...

In six pages this paper discusses Harry Hopkins' New Deal role in a discussion of the needs for social welfare and an emphasis is ...

total disregard toward the Southern people and their hardships as a result of the war"(Jennings, 2002). In such an atmosphere, it ...

the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

The history of human services and social welfare in the United States began long before the federal government stepped into the pi...

to the whites blatant disregard for such legal safeguards. Fear resided at the crux of this indifference toward the law, inasmuch...

He saw communities in...

work, he or she is expected to work. It also means that if welfare recipients are capable of working, but need education or traini...

which was a merger of two programs, the existing workforce program and the new welfare program (Tweedie, 2006). Illinois developed...

be desired from the Russian perspective. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separa...

This paper comments on these and other critical social developments that occurred after the end of the Civil War and through the e...

The United States has progressed tremendously since the Civil War and the Reconstruction years that followed. Much of the south h...

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

this paper, well examine Reconstruction from a "hindsight" view, then attempt to come up with some different recommendations for t...