YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Why the US Civil War Was Fought
Essays 511 - 540
from the spiral grooves inside the barrel: this is called "rifling" and is designed to make the bullet spin; it is believed that t...
of the rioters, which was directed at African Americans, possessed the mob with such ferocity that they lost all sense of humanity...
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...
adjacent to the South would be slave states (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 256). Then in 1819 Missouri, which is adjacent to both Illin...
had an impact on both the war protestors and the Civil Rights activists. If every person has an inherent worth, then anything that...
or that Lee wanted to resign after Gettysburg. Ordinary people behave in ordinary ways. The North was shocked and dismayed by the...
occasion, "his master had the nails of his fingers and toes beaten off" (Blassingame 331). A slave who accidentally bumped a white...
the north prior to and during the war, the political shift in power with the south remaining weak in the national forum for decade...
book is not on any one person, but on the war and the period of Reconstruction that followed. Having said that, its still possible...
made some states different than others, thus leading to further illustrate different ideals as well as different politics and econ...
act of not being obedient. He contrasted the longevity of nature with the ethereal nature of that manmade contrivance we call gov...
by the slave states because they had the potential of tipping the scales in one direction or another in regard to free verses slav...
is influences upon the Civil War were such that had he not been a primary participant in the battle, history would have recorded t...
of effecting what is right" (The American Dilemma). There are many factors that can be cited as the cause for the Civil...
a Northern state that had Southern sympathies during the war ("Jersey," 1994). He describes the border state status as the product...
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 ...
to what should be done in the area of reconstructing after the Civil War. THE POLITICAL SITUATION AFTER THE WAR Needless to say ...
out buildings and heavy damages to their property. These people, who had formerly just grown food crops, began to attempt to grow...
of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....
be fired (Crossby, 2002). Upon a discovery that the Scots had been making plans with the French he again decided attack wit...
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...
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...
of things that are rarely mentioned in classroom history books. Most history books portray the Union troops as kind, benevolent so...
record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...
of Yeoman Households" notes that in standard anti-bellum society, the white male plantation owner was the prime owner of everythin...
know that he was a slave and until he was old enough to experience the suffering and see the suffering endured by others. This ...
of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...