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of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

This paper presents James Longstreet in a consideration of the man and the Confederate general in ten pages. Seven sources are ci...

In twenty six pages this paper examines the post World War II changes in American culture with regards to race, class, gender, and...

In twelve pages Durkheim's text The Division of Labor in Society is examined within the context to lynchings in the American South...

Henry Wirz, an American Civil War criminal, is evaluated as to the truth of his criminality. Was he a scapegoat? Many details are ...

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

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

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

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

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

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...

to the whites blatant disregard for such legal safeguards. Fear resided at the crux of this indifference toward the law, inasmuch...

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

determining the direction that this country would ultimately take (McPherson, 1988). There were many individuals in the yea...

appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...

conditions as they relate to the white man instilling religion into the slaves of the South. "In the 1780s, Methodists--who repr...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

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

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

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...