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was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

slavery and wanted to see it ended, he felt that he was quite literally on a mission from God-that he had been chosen to be the pe...

were simply too many new things, new approaches, and as such this often led to confusion and as such proved detrimental in many re...

the narrator offers a different look at women as they stood to inspire the men and give them peace. This is evident when the man i...

in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost completely unaware that this position was anythin...

the Civil War. Those that supported the Civil War justified it on a number of grounds. Many even did so in religious terms, hai...

In three pages this essay examines what may have been in terms of civil rights and the Vietnam War had JFK lived and also discusse...

In 1968 the events that shook Chicago during the year 1968 including the raucous DNC with conflicts resulting from the war in Viet...

In six pages this paper discusses the changes in military strategy in the United States that resulted from railroads in a consider...

In five pages this paper discusses the roots of the Civil War in a consideration of Southern antebellum society. Three sources ar...

particularly concerning territorial expansionism; effective deterrent of despotism; and greater efficiency because concentrated e...

In three pages this paper examines nationalism in pernicious examples from America during the Civil War and the political structur...

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

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

The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Saf...

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

nation-states of Europe (plus he points out that the U.S. is actually comparable in area to Europe) (Turner, 2002). Because of the...

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...

the nations history forever. "We have in this nation the element of domestic slavery. The Republican Party think it wrong - we t...

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

Benjamin F. Butler of the Union army is generally credited with having been the first company to employ the use of the new technol...

one would have to mix the chemicals and take charge of developing the photographs on the spot. The focusing and positioning of the...

these resources is what has kept a good deal of the people in poverty and misery(Suskind 2002). Most of the civil wars have come f...

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

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

General Ulysses S. Grant had far more humble roots than Lee, and as such had a far less traditional and/or formal ideology regardi...

defeats later, which included the devastating defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg. The Confederate Congress finally relented in M...

life, liberty or property without due process of law, (or) deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the ...

In only three years, Cooke was rewarded for his knowledge and ability by being admitted to membership in E.W. Clark & Company, i.e...