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Were the Confederate States Manipulated into Striking First by President Abraham Lincoln?

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

Confederate Black Soldiers

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

US Civil War and the Gatling Gun

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

Civil War Weapons and Military Strategy

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

Reasons for the American Civil War by Bruce Levin

saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...

Slavery and the Causes of the U.S. Civil War

Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...

Civil War, Industrialism, and Sectionalism

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

The Divided House of Abraham Lincoln

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

U.S. Civil War and 'Copperheads'

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

What it Was Like to Be a Slave Before the Civil War

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

The Battle of Antiem

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

Strategy and Weapons in the American Civil War

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

Role of Women During the Civil War

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

'Slave Power,' the North, and the Civil War

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

US Civil War and the North's Strategies

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

Civil War and the North's Naval Blockade

the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...

US Civil War ans the Northern and Southern 'Home Fronts'

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

Criminality of Medical Malpractice

one and it is Negligent mal practice. In this form of malpractice there is considered to be no criminal intent or dishonest behavi...

Political and Economic Reasons Why The South Lost The Civil War

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...

African Amercan Soldiers in the U.S. Civil War

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

Civil War Letters

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

Political Systems Comparison

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

Reconstruction Era's Early and Late Stages

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

An Evaluation of the U.S. Legal System

that the rage that the public feels toward lawyers is generated is not generated by the trial lawyers obligation to defend the gui...

Modern Nursing Evolution in the United States

for caring for the wounded (Holder, 2003). For the first time in American history, women were asked to leave their homes and act...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

Union and Confederacy Battle Plans During the Civil War

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

Public Bureaucracies and Their 5 Subsystems

support from external groups (Halpin and Cox, 2000). The third influence is seen as moving down the hierarch greater levels of spe...

Recruiting for the U.S. Civil Service and Pattern Changes

Breaches of this then become political tools for opposition parties and candidates, with the government as an employer needing to ...