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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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....

The American Civil War shook our nation like it had never been shaken before. It was a time...

up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...

War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...

Blacks have...

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

slaves played a role during the Civil War in eventually seeing freedom is as follows: "By running from masters to become contraban...

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

There were many circumstances that combined to eventually cause the outbreak of the bloodiest war in American history....