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causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...

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...

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

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

what a person is willing to do with money and what is valuable to someone is not valuable to another. Another important point is t...

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...

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

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

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

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

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

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

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...