YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Paranoia That Led to the American Civil War
Essays 391 - 420
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...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...
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...
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...
had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...
2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
dealings with the government were not to their benefit and in the late 1800s, treaties with the Untied States forced the three ban...
However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...
color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...
South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...
Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...
restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...
it was estimated that the net worth of the banana trade was about $10 billioniv. These few multinational companies who produce th...
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...
be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...
would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...
chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...
out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
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...
The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...