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the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

James Longstreet graduated from West Point where he was commissioned as a brevet second lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Infantry, and s...

or a given dispute (Marcus & Rowe, 2008). Constitutional citations are usually given to grant or deny jurisdiction to a given co...

This research paper describes the issues associated with slavery that prevailed through the disputes of the 1850s. The Compromise ...

and the rights of privacy prevented a more proactive actions being taken to find these threats. This is a core element of the argu...

This paper discusses the impacts to the general laborer, women, children and minorities. There are three sources in this five pag...

was envisioning. One of the more obvious was the fact that supplying an army of this size with all of its operational requirement...

In this paper of six pages several important historical events such as the growth due to the Industrial Revolution, the twentieth ...

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

necessary institution but also as a just one. They took the stance that white slave owners were entitled to own slaves as a part o...

as if the major difference between the nations of Europe, with the exception of Great Britain that is entrenched in the common law...

at that and he turned and ran, only to fall flat on his face. The jolt startled him and woke him up completely. He heaved a sigh ...

as being conferred by the state upon the citizenry, but rather the people are perceived as holding these rights independently of t...

as new western states were added to the union. Abolitionist movement: William Lloyd Garrison, a white man, founded the Ame...

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

became tenants and landlords (Ruef and Fletcher, 2003). Slaves who escaped this fate were still unskilled and had to take jobs f...

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...

this paper, well examine Reconstruction from a "hindsight" view, then attempt to come up with some different recommendations for t...

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...

In eight pages various civil rights policies such as preferential treatment, the Civil Rights Act, and Affirmative Action are cons...

In five pages this paper presents an overview of this American historical texts and assesses the author's arguments in terms of th...

In six pages civil rights and civil liberties are discussed in order to assess their validity. Three sources are cited in the bib...

who had succeeded (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, ...

crossfire fervor of post war vengeance. The tragedy at Andersonville was not of Wirz doing. He was in the wrong place, at the wron...

This paper presents James Longstreet in a consideration of the man and the Confederate general in ten pages. Seven sources are ci...

This research report looks at the POW camps that existed during this time period. Both North and South camps are addressed.This ei...