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Essays 211 - 240
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...
states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...
in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...
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...
was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...
actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...
Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...
defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...
life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...
religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
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 ...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
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 ...