YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The First Modern War in America was the Civil War
Essays 511 - 540
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...
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...
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...
know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
npa), the use of the fantasy genre allows the author or director to stand outside of the reality with which we are familiar, and g...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...
did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...
color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...
restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...
Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...
blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...
the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...
However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...
out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...
would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...
to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...
is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...
was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...