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love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...
alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...
Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...
the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...
gin (Faragher et al, 2000). He invented the machine in 1793 and it proved so successful that by the mid-1830s cotton was "King" in...
a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...
made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...
"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...
the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...
or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...
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 ...
of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...
cessation.4 But, when Mississippi chose, outwardly, to secede he removed himself from the Senate.5 He "hoped to receive a prominen...
they played no role in politics. Middle class and wealthy women, particularly married middle class and wealthy women, however, pl...
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...
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 ...
based on the regiments history, was a success and may indicate more greater in future. The student is facing a significant amount ...
from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...
a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...
equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...
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...
mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...