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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...

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

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

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

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

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

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...

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

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...

movements had been staged at different times by students, workers, peasants and even members of the nobility (Mosley, 2006). Two ...

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

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

1925 a new constitution was initiated in Chile which provided for popular vote for both the president and congress and limited pre...

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

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

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

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

action, with red gunports open, batteries run out, and huge white battle ensigns streaming in the breeze" (Fischer 31). He then r...

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

populations of such places as England and Germany and the United States seemed to increase, in France the population remained rela...

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 ...

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...