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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 ...

we can talk about what is getting ready to explode right under our feet. I know that many of your cousins and friends are reading...

2008). In the South the economic system relied heavily on slavery and thus the political leaders of the South were quite i...

Berkeley and Davis. He also taught at the San Francisco State College and the University of Hawaii. Richards is the author of seve...

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

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

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...

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

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...

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

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

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...

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...

of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...

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

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

many have recognized, war can be good for the economy and it was at the time. Agricultural industries also saw an increase in pro...

religious attitudes of the Dutch authorities, and approximately 1,500 Jews may have constituted as much as 50 percent of the Dutch...

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 ...

would have been changed forever. Still, Davis was a leader in his own right. He was the only president of the Confederate States o...

how Presidential reconstruction was focused on rapid healing, and then discusses how Radical reconstruction was aimed at designing...