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a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...
South in some way" (William Faulkner). For example, "If he is talking about a child, it is a child in the South. If Faulkner is w...
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...
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...
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...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
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...
to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...
highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...
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 ...
assistance from the government. Another problem involving the land was the fact that aristocrats were buying up large tracts and ...
were now equal, they put into place a system of support that would forever keep many African Americans in a position of submission...
notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...
analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the p...
Sudanese government can be trusted to look after its own citizens there" ("No Help Needed, Thank You Very Much"). The outlook for ...