YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The First Modern War in America was the Civil War
Essays 481 - 510
equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...
the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...
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 ...
mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...
about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...
choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...
War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
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...
life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...
actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...
medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...
enhancing family life, and creating a safer society, crime increased. There is a great deal of evidence to show that organized cri...
Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...
defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...
been stolen and North Koreas invasion of South Korea (Muravchik, 1996). Worse still, all of this took place in accordance with the...
one would have to mix the chemicals and take charge of developing the photographs on the spot. The focusing and positioning of the...
how Presidential reconstruction was focused on rapid healing, and then discusses how Radical reconstruction was aimed at designing...
the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...
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...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...