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was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

accident. Of course, China tells almost the opposite story. One wonders then how much propaganda is being disseminated. During a t...

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

In five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

respect as the white soldiers during or after World War I; while black Americans fought just as hard and loyally as their lighter-...

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

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...

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform 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...

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...