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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...

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

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

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

published in 1929, Charles Edward Merriam observed, "The racial complexity of Chicago is one of the characteristic features of its...

the reality of the civil rights movement. In this way, it becomes an everlasting record however of the event, thus immortalizing ...

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

North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...

"rank and stature in the Confederate command structure" (Hampton, 2002). Longstreet gave the Confederate Army exemplary service (...

of the problems both Union and Confederate armies faced on the home front. "Confederate soldiers left their wives -- and their mo...

came replete with very definite opinions on the war and the factors behind it which interlaced the everyday lives of both the comm...

power in the federal government, the North did not directly address these issues. There were no talks. There were no debates. Ther...

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

support for joining the war. Although it seemed as if the U.S. might become involved, the Americans were quite happy with Europe f...

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

won by any nation. Caputos work focuses on the primary character who remembers an innocence that will always live within him, bu...

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

records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...

was envisioning. One of the more obvious was the fact that supplying an army of this size with all of its operational requirement...

the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...

at that and he turned and ran, only to fall flat on his face. The jolt startled him and woke him up completely. He heaved a sigh ...

necessary institution but also as a just one. They took the stance that white slave owners were entitled to own slaves as a part o...

admittance was a critical one. At the time the scale was essentially balanced between those states that supported slavery and tho...

crossfire fervor of post war vengeance. The tragedy at Andersonville was not of Wirz doing. He was in the wrong place, at the wron...

the population base of each, began to develop from the point of discovery of this land which is so often referred to as the "New W...

who had succeeded (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, ...