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mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

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...

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

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

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

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

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

lived simply, many people were middle class as well. In the South the focus was on plantations, farming, and the people were essen...

of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...

based on the regiments history, was a success and may indicate more greater in future. The student is facing a significant amount ...

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...

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

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

any legitimate claim upon the land, the New World was not uninhabited and European settlers necessarily had to contend with and ad...

from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

to believe that he was the cause of the war (Caesar, 2007). He went so far as to offer to disband his army, provided Pompey did ...

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...

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...

One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...