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from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...

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 ...

adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...

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...

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...

a portrait of a gracious and elegant way of life populated by generous masters and happy "darkies" one of whom, Big Sam, even risk...

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

the leading black American of his era, gave at a primarily white audience in Atlanta in 1895. This speech became known as the "Atl...

the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...

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...

alike despite their willingness to risk their lives in combat. But as the text illustrates, racial discrimination was unfortunate...

made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...

causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...

In seven pages this research paper examines how these Civil War tactics were a harbinger of the total warfare military concept of ...

In five pages this paper assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the North and South which ultimately determined the outcome of t...

war who resented the Union it for the control it tried to place on issues which they considered to be issues of the state and not ...

their expedition passed through it in 1804, and further descriptions of the land had been gained from the expeditions of Zebulon P...

In twelve pages this paper discusses the Reconstruction policies of Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson for after the Ci...

Henry Wirz, an American Civil War criminal, is evaluated as to the truth of his criminality. Was he a scapegoat? Many details are ...

Race and the Civil War are examined in a contrasting and comparison of these novels in six pages. There are no other sources list...

In five pages this paper considers whether or not the Civil War could have been somehow avoided. Five sources are cited in the bi...

In six pages this paper discusses the Constitution's awarding of states' rights but how the Civil War, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New...

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 coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...