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Essays 421 - 450

North and South Implications of 1820's Missouri Compromise

In five pages this paper discusses how the Civil War may have been the result of the simmering North and South tensions that resul...

Overview of the Molly Maguires Group

In six pages this paper examines the violent post Civil War labor history of the Pennsylvania coal mines in this overview of the M...

Analysis of the Effects of the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction on Racial Equality and Federal v. States Rights

particularly concerning territorial expansionism; effective deterrent of despotism; and greater efficiency because concentrated e...

1890s Crisis in America

In three pages various crises including Coxey's Army and the Pullman train strike are examined as they affected the post Civil War...

State Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky

In six pages the nullification of these state resolutions is examined in a discussion that continues the time between their passag...

Military Strategic Changes Attributed to Railroads

In six pages this paper discusses the changes in military strategy in the United States that resulted from railroads in a consider...

Antebellum South and Slavery

In five pages this paper discusses the roots of the Civil War in a consideration of Southern antebellum society. Three sources ar...

Irish War of Independence Leader Michael Collins

In twenty pages this research leader examines Michael Collins's life and charismatic leadership that would both flourish and be cu...

Different Perspectives on Slavery

In five pages this paper examines the Civil War and after perspectives on slavery as viewed by John C. Calhoun, Frederick Douglass...

Secession as a Harbinger of Conflict

Civil War historians believe that a majority of Americans felt that forcing the South to remain in the Union when it felt it was n...

Kenneth M. Stampp's And the War Came

only truths that earlier history books illustrated, and in Stampps book we get an even clear picture of the actual circumstances a...

Winston Groom's Shrouds of Glory

In five pages a review of this Civil War text is presented. There are no other sources cited....

Richard Hall's Patriots in Disguise

In three pages this paper discusses women in Civil War combat within the context of Hall's book and examines women's significant r...

Incendiary Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In eight pages this paper how Uncle Tom's Cabin may well have ignited the Civil War spark to the antagonisms that had long been si...

'The Butterfly and the Tank' by Ernest Hemingway

him and a real gun is fired and he is killed. 6) The narrator is...

Stephen W. Sears' Landscape Turned Red

In five pages a review of this historical text that examines the Civil War Battle of Antietam is presented. There are no other so...

Southern Slavery and its Social Status

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

In Favor of Civil Disobedience

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...

Historical Overview of Black Education in the United States

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

'The Appeal' by David Walker

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

Myths and Reality of the U.S. Reconstruction Period

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

U.S. Reconstruction and Labor Arrangements

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

New Yorkers Walt Whitman, Frederick Law Olmsted and the NYC Military's Contributions

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

Investment Banker Jay Cooke

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...

American Attitude Foundations

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

Expression Changes in the Later Poetry of Walt Whitman

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

'Angel of the Battlefield' Clara Barton

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

Political Influences on Salvador Dali

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

The Turn of the Century Expansionism of America

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

Duality and War in Literature

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