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In five pages what would become the great American pastime as it was played during the Civil War is examined. Seven sources are c...

hold in favor of Scotts claim (PG). However, the U.S. Constitution did not support Scotts assumption. It was a complicated issue ...

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

In five pages this paper compares Barbara Brackman's text and D.W. Griffith's film in terms of how each portrayed the Civil War. ...

was the enemy. Most Americans, when they think of the reasons for the Civil war, will name slavery as a major issue dividing th...

not assumed principal position during this, the bloodiest fight of the entire American Civil War. "Lee hoped an invasion would fu...

This research report examines the Civil War and policy issues. Both civilian and military life are noted. This five page paper has...

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

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

In five pages this paper considers the Northern participation in the Civil War in a consideration of the 2.5 civilian volunteers i...

participated as a foot soldier for the duration. It details Rhodes impressive ascent through the infantry ranks, beginning first ...

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...

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

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

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...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

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 ...

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...

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

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 five pages this paper discusses how the U.S. Civil War was the result of competing philosophies of states rights vs. a centrali...

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...