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act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...

had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...

the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...

or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...

they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...

lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

notes, "Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary" (Kagan, 2005; B07). At the same time one can speculat...

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...

based on the regiments history, was a success and may indicate more greater in future. The student is facing a significant amount ...

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 ...

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

Sudanese government can be trusted to look after its own citizens there" ("No Help Needed, Thank You Very Much"). The outlook for ...

have any solid answer. The following paper examines reasons why the South lost, and focuses on the fact that it likely lost due to...

the twentieth century, historians began to fill in the picture created by the broad brush stokes of nineteenth century historiogra...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

of literature, and gave innumerable speeches for their cause" (African American Odyssey, 2005). There were some who argued and foc...

America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...

In five pages this important Civil War battle is described in an overview of events. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

defensive stance. This is hardly a recent invention, but actually manifested itself some half-century before the birth of Jesus C...

because the railroad was so relatively new, there was a great deal of chaos in trying to coordinate such efforts. The man power wa...

prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

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...