YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Robber Barons of the Civil War
Essays 121 - 150
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...
Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...
nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...
his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...
The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...
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...
Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...
the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...
we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...
2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...
Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...
love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...
results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...
square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...
communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...
mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...
that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...
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...
a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...
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...
slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...
well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...
the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...