YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Contemporary US and the Effects of the Civil War
Essays 361 - 390
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...
that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...
War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...
mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...
the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...
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...
the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
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...
In five pages the first important Civil War battle and its importance are analyzed. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
This 10 page paper discusses the way in which urban planning has transformed New York City since the end of the Civil War. The wri...
USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...
the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...
he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...
Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...
slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...
in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...
Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...