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as a pivotal contributor to the outcome. SUPPORTING ARGUMENTS 1) Robert E. Lee a) Shrewd and defiant military man whose objective...

travel to Massachusetts for the sole purpose of disrupting Puritan church services and heckling their ministered (Woods 2). This a...

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

he unravels the various people involved that served under, and aside from, Lincoln. While one could argue that his work, and sourc...

In ten pages this paper discusses the Civil War in a consideration of the impact of events that took place in Kentucky before and ...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

democracies, did not want communism to spread throughout Europe. Both superpowers possessed nuclear weapons and both had the power...

Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...

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

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

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

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

accommodate it by adjusting already-held beliefs or the person must reject the information. One or the other must be chosen in ord...

new technology. With these elements in mind, the following paper examines railroads, weaponry, and ironclads as it relates to the ...

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

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

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at black soldiers in the Civil War. The experiences of inequality endured by such soldi...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...

1909, the Wright brothers built the first "heavier than air flying machine" based on Army Aviation specifications. During World Wa...

In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...

of Benjamin Franklin Ferris, 2002). In August of 1861 Ferris signed up to join Captain H. Cook who was recruiting soldiers to go ...

World War II battles in Across the River and into the Trees, this knowledge came from research and not from Hemingways personal wa...

the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...

North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...

Online 2002, PG). Of the nine principles of war that were used in this particular battle, the one most used was that of objective...

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

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

In six pages this paper assesses the Civil War's purpose within the context of Abraham Lincoln's observation 'I claim not to have ...

The turning point for the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg, one conflict of many that stood out as instrumental in ...