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

did not engage in combat (Matlof Multimedia U.S. History). However, these statistics are deceiving because most of the northern r...

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...

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...

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

is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...

construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...

maritime warfare spawned such innovations as human powered underwater vessels that harbored explosive charges connected to spars t...

matters since, as is shown by the plight of the hapless and rabbity Juan, the authorities are prepared to execute people for littl...

King Charles II, the quashing of remaining rebellions in Ireland and Scotland and the installation of parliamentarian Oliver Cromw...

In the following paper we examine this assumption, providing historical information concerning the foreign allies, eventually argu...

to the ideological complexities of that war. Tearing the nation apart in the middle 1800s, this war is most often remembered as r...

The North and the South had become separated by economics and ideology. They had, in fact, become very separate regions. The North...

to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...

hold up to the demand. Each time the demand grew so did the number of black farmers who toiled the land. Cotton was not the only...

unusual. The Spanish Civil War quickly became infiltrated by foreign intervention on both sides, and indeed has been likened to a ...

of the intelligensia of the period to realize that the revolution would, by definition, evolve from the most non-urbanized corners...

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

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

offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...

was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...

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...

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 ...

In nine pages this paper discusses the rebellions and slave revolts that occurred around the U.S. Civil War period as described in...

In ten pages this paper examines this Civil War blockade and what it strategically represented to Northern troops. Eight sources ...

In five pages this paper considers the Northern participation in the Civil War in a consideration of the 2.5 civilian volunteers i...