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religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...
founded by Rev. Charles L. Brace was formed and was the first "childrens organization to adopt family care, or placing-out, as its...
and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...
Barrios de Chamorro transform her country into a peaceful nation, but she also abandoned the dictatorship that had heretofore oppr...
G and I, Magruder led a storm of fury that would eventually render a Confederate victory. Even with this winning reclamation effo...
Each side was consistently successful in resolving its problems in politics, civil morale, and economics when its military was vic...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more refl...
saw slavery as absolutely essential to their economy, Levine argues that American workers viewed the institution of slavery as con...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...
the North of "Confederate" pirates, it also provided more control for the blockade (McPherson, 370). Ship Island in New Orleans fo...
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...
Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...
notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...
lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...
as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...
to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...
Orend points out that the mere threat of war, or mutual dislike and disdain, are not necessarily indicators of war. "The conflict ...
cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...
they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...
Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...
occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
records how she inquired about one young man who was brought into the ward crying, "I cant die. I cant die" (Livermore 174). She w...
to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...
the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...
navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...