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Essays 271 - 300
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...
he used his paper to speak his peace. There was a lot of turmoil during the middle of the nineteenth century. Because America did...
causes were paramount in the instigation of World War I, but these factors alone would not have been sufficient to cause a war wit...
the same year the prisoners were released. It did set the stage for tensions, especially when one considers that the South really ...
Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...
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...
equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...
that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...
mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...
a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...
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...
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,...
was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...
the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...
about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...
choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...
terms of unions is being fudged, and there is the domination of much of the business environment in the country by opaque clans. L...
War, more than 3,000 freed blacks were murdered by Southern terrorist organizations. In the mythology of the "lost cause" and the ...
up at the time. As expressed in the infamous Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society (1962), the fear-mongering ...
While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...
One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...
If a specific shot did not exist, he would create it; if the story was not that intriguing, he would fabricate it. In short, Gard...
love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...
results (Posen, n.d.). When the rats were examined, they had "swollen and hyperactive adrenal glands, shrunken immune tissue (thym...
square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...
communities, working alongside men, often doing the same work, and ultimately forging a nation. But, by the Victorian Era women we...