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crushing power of the round balls had no match in the newly designed projectile typesii, the rapid revolution in this area could b...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...
deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking t...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...
"That government is best which governs least....For government is an expedient by which men would...
Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...
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...
courts and token governorships were merely means to placate the population without offering "real freedom or power" (Fischer 158)....
John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...
the "things" searched go beyond the business records as the Department of Justice notes, and means that it can search "any tangibl...
had no voice at all. Jefferson Davis accused the North of wanting "an unjust system of legislation to promote the industry of the...
was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...
contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...
is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...
cheat. They cheat with timesheets, for example, as well as cheat on financial statements which might include a deduction for a bus...
also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...
sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...
on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...
North and the more rural, ante-bellum Old South. Most historians agree that, in addition to the concept of slavery, vast d...
white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...
boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...