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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...
two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...
they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...
life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...
medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...
actual goings-on, but also to the major players of the war including confederacy president Jefferson Davis and others such as John...
Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...
defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...
General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...
establish the status quo in the "New World". We adopted their language and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the Fr...
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...
a long growing season in very fertile soils. The northern winters were long and did not provide for an adequate growing season to...
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...
. . . 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...
as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...
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...
in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...
that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...
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...
South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...
However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...
color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...
kill. They are trained to do this in order to eliminate their own risk of death. The use of deadly force is justified because offi...
restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...