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

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

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

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

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

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

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 ...

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

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

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

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

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...

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

G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

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...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

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...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

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...

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

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...