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of the problems both Union and Confederate armies faced on the home front. "Confederate soldiers left their wives -- and their mo...

"rank and stature in the Confederate command structure" (Hampton, 2002). Longstreet gave the Confederate Army exemplary service (...

In five pages discord between citizens of the American north and south are considered and Benito Cereno by Herman Melville is used...

the post-Civil War period, which was one of unprecedented patronage for the arts from government and private sources, produced wor...

the War Between the States broke out, he rejoined the army, with the highlight being that he was given the command of Union Troops...

In this paper of six pages several important historical events such as the growth due to the Industrial Revolution, the twentieth ...

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

admittance was a critical one. At the time the scale was essentially balanced between those states that supported slavery and tho...

necessary institution but also as a just one. They took the stance that white slave owners were entitled to own slaves as a part o...

at that and he turned and ran, only to fall flat on his face. The jolt startled him and woke him up completely. He heaved a sigh ...

the war, however, women were actually given incentive to expand their role into the typical domain of males. With their men on th...

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...

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

Confederacy. The events leading up the planning and execution of the Atlanta Campaign, however, were much more complex than many ...

a moderate scheme of emancipation with compensation for the former owners" (Moore, 1993, 118)....

of slave states and free states. A compromise was worked out regarding the admission of Missouri to the Union. The Missouri comp...

James Longstreet graduated from West Point where he was commissioned as a brevet second lieutenant in the 4th U.S. Infantry, and s...

This paper discusses the impacts to the general laborer, women, children and minorities. There are three sources in this five pag...

was envisioning. One of the more obvious was the fact that supplying an army of this size with all of its operational requirement...

This research paper describes the issues associated with slavery that prevailed through the disputes of the 1850s. The Compromise ...

and the rights of privacy prevented a more proactive actions being taken to find these threats. This is a core element of the argu...

or a given dispute (Marcus & Rowe, 2008). Constitutional citations are usually given to grant or deny jurisdiction to a given co...

on this promissory note, but that the government has "defaulted" (King). This metaphor is extremely apt and provides both a logi...

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

as if the major difference between the nations of Europe, with the exception of Great Britain that is entrenched in the common law...

. . For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is...

as being conferred by the state upon the citizenry, but rather the people are perceived as holding these rights independently of t...

as new western states were added to the union. Abolitionist movement: William Lloyd Garrison, a white man, founded the Ame...

In 1896, Plessy v. Fergusson asserted that "equal but separate" accommodations for blacks on railroad cars did not violate the "eq...

being. If it was all the same to them, he must have said, Ill stay where I am. His famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" were pub...