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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...

In six pages this paper examines the impact of the U.S. Civil War upon the American family structure and the effects upon juvenile...

This research report looks at the robber barons who lived during the time of the American Civil War. Who were they? What did they ...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

There were many circumstances that combined to eventually cause the outbreak of the bloodiest war in American history....

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

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

In eight pages this report discusses the nearly 200,000 African American soldiers that fought during the US Civil War after Presid...

Henry Wirz, an American Civil War criminal, is evaluated as to the truth of his criminality. Was he a scapegoat? Many details are ...

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

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...

communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

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

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

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...

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...