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Essays 541 - 570
However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...
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 ...
restore statehood after the Civil War. James McPhersons "Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction", however, is particula...
Charles came to the throne already at a disadvantage. For one thing, he was involved in a marriage with a French princess, which h...
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...
Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...
construction of Fort Pickens (Lufkin, 2002). In January of 1861, the Federal military presence in Pensacola was minimal, consisti...
is an extremely interesting account of the plight of the American black after the Civil War. Written from the viewpoint of Gideon...
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...
to Whitmans own estimates, he aided over 100,000 soldiers during this period, many of whom became his devoted friends (Valiumas 70...
was taken prisoner three times, and escaped three times. He was grazed or hit by Yankee bullets on numerous occasions, and once, h...
a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...
boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...
offer, and also because they used better wartime strategies and had stellar leadership. The Civil War began in 1860 at a time whe...
was overthrown by the election of Abraham Lincoln, aristocrats in the South refused to accept the public will (1999). Southerners...
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 ...
be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...
out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...
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...
p. 144). Each has value, but each exists with a paradox. The more abstract theories are more easily generalized, but more diffic...
replaced by an increasing number of autonomous self-determining states, whereas others were more precipitate: the collapse of the ...
the events and the people. We are not merely given a perspective that informs us of the greed and evil that seemed to be inherent ...
a hierarchy in the cosmos."iii This hierarchy, which is typically referred to as the Great Chain of Being, was "gradually taken ov...
Before California within the hands of the Americans, it was a Mexican territory, with the Mexican soldier Francisco de Haro being...