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or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

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

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...

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...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

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

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...

assistance from the government. Another problem involving the land was the fact that aristocrats were buying up large tracts and ...

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

were now equal, they put into place a system of support that would forever keep many African Americans in a position of submission...

Sudanese government can be trusted to look after its own citizens there" ("No Help Needed, Thank You Very Much"). The outlook for ...

analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the p...

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

Quiet was largely to dispel nationalistic fantasies about warfare and depict WWI in realistic fashion as perceived by the common G...

based on the regiments history, was a success and may indicate more greater in future. The student is facing a significant amount ...

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...

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

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

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

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...