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History of Slavery in the US

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

An Analysis of Louis Fischer's, The Essential Gandhi

courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....

July 1 to July 3 1863 Battle of Gettysburg

Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

Kennesaw Mountain Battle During the Civil War

slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...

Issues of the Lebanese Civil War

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

Civil War Life of Robert E. Lee

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

Civil Disobedience and Abortion

"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...

Section 215 of the U.S. Patriot Act

the "things" searched go beyond the business records as the Department of Justice notes, and means that it can search "any tangibl...

Causes and Effects of the U.S. Civil War

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...

Second Revolution in America, the Civil War

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

The Slave Abolition Movement Before the U.S. Civil War

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

U.S. History and Manifest Destiny from 1865 to 1939

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

Overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act

in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...

How Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Define 'Self Reliance'

emphasized the importance of self reliance. Both Emerson and Thoreau are remembered for their philosophies that encapsulate...

John Brown's Controversial Activities

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

Causes Initiating the Civil War

had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...

1820 and 1850 Compromises

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

Military Strategic Changes Influenced by Napoleon Bonaparte

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

Gay Marriage Beyond Vermont

given full faith and credit, and that the DOMA itself violates the Fifth Amendments Equal Protection Clause as well as the Full Fa...

Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' and Plato's Crito

are the destroyer; and are doing what only a miserable slave would do, running away and turning your back upon the compacts and ag...

Analyzing the Ferocious and Prolonged Civil War Combat of 1861 Until 1865

the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...

A World War II Submarines History

crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...

The Sudanese Civil War

However, there are many tribal and ethnic divisions within these and so, it is difficult for all of them to get together and form ...

Generals Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Their Differences

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

Civil War and Reconstruction Effects

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

Civil War Weapons and Military Strategy

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

Civil War, Industrialism, and Sectionalism

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

The Divided House of Abraham Lincoln

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

Confederate Women During The American Civil War

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

Confederate Black Soldiers

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