YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Quest for Civil Rights
Essays 631 - 660
of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
one and it is Negligent mal practice. In this form of malpractice there is considered to be no criminal intent or dishonest behavi...
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...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
the vision to build a railroad across the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, and then to continue the railroad across the Unit...
Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...
had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...
repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...
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...
support from external groups (Halpin and Cox, 2000). The third influence is seen as moving down the hierarch greater levels of spe...
that the rage that the public feels toward lawyers is generated is not generated by the trial lawyers obligation to defend the gui...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
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...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
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...
The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...
that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...
in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...
and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...
me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...
founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...
itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...
Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...