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made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

twenty-five percent of infantrymen "in the most aggressive companies and under the most intense local pressure" actually fire thei...

base their assumptions and conclusions on the notion that a supreme emergency provides a justification for war. He considers the ...

he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...

gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...

This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...

slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...

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 ...

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

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 Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

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...

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...