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Essays 361 - 390
those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...
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 ...
in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...
founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...
Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...
In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...
appointed to non-elected stations. Winthrop was certain that God had made a covenant with the settlers and that the world would b...
in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...
G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...
. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...
However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...
. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...
another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...
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...
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...
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...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
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 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...
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...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...