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founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

Lincoln, and Northerners in general, are popularly seen as advocates for the black race. However, what is less well-known is that ...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...

order to coordinate the Union war effort (Federal Bureaucracy) It was in the nineteenth century that Western democracies began ...

analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the p...

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

Americas people. Creating a government that was for the people and by the people is what was going to promote both individual and...

when he suspended individual liberties, and closed down anti-war and anti-administration newspapers (24). Not only did he do that,...

Northerners make such a big deal out of something that wasnt originally a big deal to Southerners at all. Bayards Granny, like man...

two was difficult. Healing did not come quickly or easily. Hatred between the two entities continued to exist. The South did no...

In twenty five pages this paper examines the slavery and race issues that culminated in the U.S. Civil War and examines the Jim Cr...

of Negroes were literate." Slavery had given few opportunities to develop initiative or to think independently. A writer for Harp...

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

In 5 pages, this paper considers how the South won the Reconstruction despite the Northern victory in the Civil War, discussing st...

A 5 page overview of the book Howard Fast. The focus is on the reconstruction era. Although the slaves had been freed, black whi...

as some type of punishment. According to Burkin (1999), the question of the black "freedmen" was also a thorny one. Some politic...

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 years between 1865 and 1877 were known as the Reconstruction era because the country was trying to recover and rebuild after t...

clubs of a period of 16 years between 1978 and 1993. The theory was that if there was a competitive market for players each clubs ...

which an organisation competes. Porter (1985, p13) has designed two differing categories of competitive advantage; cost advantage ...

fought to keep independence on the other. The American Civil War, from the perspective of the North and President Lincoln, was f...

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

the same way livestock was cared for, consequently they even lacked the experience to care for their most basic of needs (McGuire ...

the conflict in Yugoslavia, what he calls "ethnic cleansing, American-style" (Bovard, 1999). He says that "President Clinton and ...

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

from east to west and the number of states was growing with that expansion (Foner and Garraty, 1991). Among the more precipitory ...