YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Our Fondness for the Civil War
Essays 121 - 150
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...
would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...
noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...
of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...
the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...
maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...
The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...
In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...
to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...
In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...
chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...
of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....
be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...
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...
to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...
to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...
had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...
North was not quite as conducive to farming. Although it is true that perhaps the South might have become more prone to industrial...