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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...

color of their skin. One such person was Prudence Crandall, a Quaker woman, who opened a school for black girls. There was such a ...

of these norms. Although individual identity is also defined along subcultural lines in urban society, researchers must also be aw...

as the real measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not ...

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...

of intellectuals, students and mass media, as well as laborers and farmers, have helped to undercut the militarys power (Pathmanan...

them to finance imports" (Fogel and Engerman PG). South Slavery, because it was so economically viable in the South, would neve...

restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...

Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...

blacks as second class citizens. After the Civil War, blacks earned the long-awaited right to vote and even hold office. Some le...

one needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of civil service politics; however, it can also be c...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

to. For example, during the Civli War , the Confederacy imposed a national draft (Miller & Faux, 1997). The union would also impl...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

have been discussed in the past and are relatively well known are based on the worst instincts of human nature which seem to defy ...

cheat. They cheat with timesheets, for example, as well as cheat on financial statements which might include a deduction for a bus...

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

sub-human and not capable of sharing the same type of human fears and emotions as true human beings. The assurance of inferiority ...

on executions so that the society can take time to figure out why the system is broken (2002). Then, possibly, it is alluded that ...

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...

of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...

would support the opposite, namely, a "slow, feeble, disorganized attack" (Hughes, 2002). He also explains this strategy based on ...

to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...

chose to split the Confederate army into two groups, nonetheless. "Lee left 10,000 men under Jubal Early, while he and Thomas Ston...

was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...

white freedom and black slavery. The link between whites and blacks would change considerably between the arrival of those first ...

finally received the freedom they so desperately wanted. When the Reconstruction Period arrived, it looked as though blacks were ...