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a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
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...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...
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...
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
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...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
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...
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...
to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...
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...
in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...
well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...
were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...
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...