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prompted by a growing lower class of former servants who had worked through the terms of their indentures and thus became competit...

well as the case that finally struck down the concept of "separate but equal" in terms of education, and mandating that all school...

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....

John Brown of popular myth was actually born many years later, in "Bloody Kansas" (Chowder 68). A person with deeply held Calvini...

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

in their policies, partly because other Arab nations pressured them into leaving the Palestinians free to pursue their attacks aga...

Lee resigned his U.S. Army commission to defend Virginia and fight for the Confederacy, on the side of slavery."3 He was something...

Couch defiantly pledged, "In no case must the enemy be allowed to cross the Susquehanna" (Brubaker, 2003, p. 74). Lees Lt. Gen. R...

slaves to keep crops coming in. The North was very reliant on the Souths products and it was also more the hub of government, Brit...

American people, Thoreau argues that the government "does not settle the West. It does no educate" that it is the American people...

to the Bush administration, is a model for development and exemplifies the success of free trade policies (Swedish). The governmen...

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

the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War combined."5 It is often inconceivable for the person of t...

states and what free states could join the Union in order to maintain a balance wherein slave states never had the upper hand it s...

were clearly relevant. During the American Civil War, some of the techniques were used. However, cavalry would not perform trad...

had died, wrote letters to the families of other loved ones who died, and essentially came together in a very subtle way that defi...

repugnant. In exploring the time period before the Civil War, Equaino (1998) takes one on a journey through the 1700s slave trad...

to the end of World War I. This was a war which affected the entire world. It was a war which centered on nationalistic ideolog...

USS Monitor is heralded as "the most famous of all American warships" largely because of its rotating turret, but in early March o...

highly supportive of abolitionists. In fact, just prior to the bravery shown at Wagner by the 54th regiment, Democratic rioters in...

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

Nor was it uncommon for these "belles" to become involved in politics, which would have been unheard of before the war (Clinton et...

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...

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

two armies would have simply pivoted around each other and ended up in each others rear, able to march unopposed to Washington or ...

of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...