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. . . perceives that it waits a little while in the door . . . that it was fittest for its days . . . that its action has...

Missouri asked for admission to the Union in 1817. Because she was a slave state this caused considerable disagreement between th...

Immigration Timeline, 2003). Many of the immigrants who came to the U.S. both prior to and after the Civil War did so out of comp...

thenceforth focused on compelling freedpeople to accept plantation work on a wage labor basis" (The Readers Companion to American ...

in colonial America and grew impressively after the Revolution, with ship production centering on the East River (NY Maritime Cult...

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

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...

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

and so the South was in a bit of a quandary. Importing weaponry was an idea that made sense. Thousands of rifle-muskets would come...

co-mingling with people of lesser stature, racial inferiors, and worst of all, the chance of association with non-Christians. Fur...

The English Civil war was also not strictly English, involving as it did Ireland and Scotland as well. The conflict, in fact, orig...

itself with individual codes concerning conduct of certain individuals and groups. Morally, therefore each of the dilemmas noted ...

that such madness was a construct for the specific purpose of interpreting the world in artistic terms. Dalis political views, how...

in the 19th and early 20th century, the fact is even more remarkable. "Well and Strong and Young" Updike writes that in 1854 Bar...

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

as well as begin to collectively respond as a liberated people rather than race of repressed second class citizens. It was due in...

another aspect of the post-Civil war years. This aspect was the women who lived then. Indeed, to assess history only based on ou...

However, there were certain characteristics which applied to each side of this war, and the advantages of each were indeed impress...

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

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...

the importance of such an exhibit runs far deeper than merely providing a source of interest for a curious community, because it u...

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

in weaponry which were unveiled during this time. The evolution of projectiles, for example, had just moved weaponry from relying...

job of delving deeply into the historical and cultural foundation of racial discrimination during the slave trade. Black Odyssey ...