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In six pages this paper examines the reasons why the U.S. Civil War was fought. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

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

In nine pages this paper discusses the rebellions and slave revolts that occurred around the U.S. Civil War period as described in...

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

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

analysis and interpretation of the material led him to conclude that the Restoration was a success, particularly in light of the p...

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

had been a part of the Southern way of life for 200 years and they people believed it was a part of their culture (Leidner, 2000)....

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

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...

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

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

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

civilized nation. While historians blame Grants lackadaisical resolve to enforce Reconstruction laws, that slavery was ever sough...

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

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

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

This 5 page paper discusses some of the issues facing people at home during WWII. The writer discusses economics as well as the in...