YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Civil War
Essays 151 - 180
saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...
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...
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...
Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...
notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...
lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...
as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...
to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...
they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...
Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...
occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...
to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...
the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...
have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...
citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...
Sudanese government can be trusted to look after its own citizens there" ("No Help Needed, Thank You Very Much"). The outlook for ...
were now equal, they put into place a system of support that would forever keep many African Americans in a position of submission...
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...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...