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co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

those changes threatened to overturn the relationship which existed between the individual states and the nation as a whole. A si...

establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...

was able to peacefully initiate change on a massive scale. As a leader, he was able to organize, and thus had the ability to unit...

a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...

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...

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

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

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

conditions as they relate to the white man instilling religion into the slaves of the South. "In the 1780s, Methodists--who repr...

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

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

As the war raged on, black cotton farmers were looking forward to a Northern victory, which would ultimately give them their freed...

1861, it was with a determination to covert the "rebel States into a wilderness" (McPherson 249). While the North was eag...

know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...

the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were f...

to become obsolete.vi Nevertheless, for a great deal of the war, commanders continued to employ tactics that had been used for a c...

of unpleasant confrontations" (Clinton et al 140). For some of the Confederate women, war was distant, but for others, it ...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

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

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

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

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

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