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founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...

. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

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

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

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

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

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

If a specific shot did not exist, he would create it; if the story was not that intriguing, he would fabricate it. In short, Gard...

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

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...

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

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

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...

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...