1775-1900: The History of the Buffalo Soldier
Throughout American history, Afro-Americans have had to decide whether they belonged in the United States or if they should go elsewhere. Slavery no doubtfully had a great impact upon their decisions. However, despite their troubles African Americans have made a grand contribution and a great imp....

A Difference in Earnings: A Report Analyzing Gender Equality in Pay
After research teams gather articles and data sets to assist in proving or disproving the original hypothesis the information collected must first be analyzed. By entering the data into tables and creating charts from the tables one can have a better understanding and can eliminate any assumptions ....

A Southern Perspective on the American Civil War
The aftermath of any war can be very tricky, when it comes to resolving issues between the parties involved. In the American Civil War, the Confederate army lost to the Union army, who then occupied the South. The differences between the American Civil War and most other wars are, that the South ke....

abe lincoln
John Wilkes Booth, born May 10, 1838, was an actor who performed throughout the country in many plays. He was the lead in some of William Shakespeare's most famous works. Additionally, he was a racist and Southern sympathizer during the Civil War. He hated Abraham Lincoln who represented everyt....

Abe Lincoln
President Abraham Lincoln's preliminary Emancipation Proclamation of September 22, 1862, became federal military policy on January 1, 1863, prompting Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to describe it as "a broad step a landmark in history" (Welles, vol. 1, p. 212). The edict transformed the Civi....

Abe Lincoln Presidency
Though Douglas won the senatorial election, Lincoln had made his mark by the debates; he was now a potential presidential candidate. His first appearance in the East was in Feb., 1860, when he spoke at Cooper Union in New York City. He gained a large following in the antislavery states, but his n....

Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Essay Period 7 Abraham Lincoln, a sectional candidate whose election led to secession of the South, succeeded in restoring the Union and laying a strong foundation for its future greatness. Both Lincolns military policies and his domestic programs helped to make him on of th....

african americans in the civil war
African Americans In The Civil War The research topic is African Americans in the Civil War and the part they played. One of the resources that strike this topic is the movie Glory that is based on a certain black regiment that fought during the Civil War. The main things that are being looked....

Alcatraz The Rock
In life there are many choices we make everyday. It is those choices we make that determine our future. Some people make good choices while others make bad choices. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary prisons were created to keep lawbreakers in confinement, and away from society. Accordi....

American Democracy Through the Eyes of an Optimist
On a late summer night in 1773, some radical Americans led by Samuel Adams dressed up like Indians and dumped thousands of pounds of tea into Boston Harbor (Lowi, Ginsberg, and Shepsle 39). At the time no one thought that this single rebellious act would change history and give birth to the greates....

American Government
In this essay I will give a short history of the government in United States of America (U.S.). Then I will describe each of the three branches of government in the U.S. and the relationship between them. In principle, the U.S. is a democratic republic, they govern themselves by choosing their leade....

American History
Early in American History, before and during the Revolutionary War,the British taxed the American People with taxes such as: The Stamp Act, The Sugar Act and the Townshed Act. After the war, the trade with Brittan stopped. The Americans started trading with the French because they were their allies....

American History Standards 11.2.9
Regulation of railroads by the federal government originated with the passage in 1887 of the Act to Regulate Commerce, or Interstate Commerce Act. With amendments, that law is currently the principal vehicle of federal regulation. It sought to deal with certain basic problems that had developed unde....

An Irish Immigrants Story
February 21, 2006 A Little Piece of My Irish History June 24, 1839 John Aloysius Bresnahan was born in County Kerry, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States. John married an American and fathered six children. John Bresnahan was only one of the 961,719 Irish born living in the Unit....

An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is the story of a man who is sentenced to death by hanging at the Owl Creek Bridge. The story centers on Peyton Farquhar, a southern planter who, while not a Confederate Soldier, is about to be hanged by the Union Army for attempting to destroy the railroad bridge a....

Analysis of 'The Gettysburg Address'
In the early days of the United States, loyalty to ones state often took precedence over loyalty to ones country. The Union was considered a voluntary compact entered into by independent, sovereign states for as long as it served their purpose to be so joined (Encarta). Neither the North nor....

Ancient Persian Empire
The earliest known record of the Persians comes from an Assyrian inscription from c. 844 BC that calls them the Parsu (Parsuash, Parsumash) and mentions them in the region of Lake Urmia alongside another group, the Madai (Medes). For the next two centuries, the Persians and Medes were at times tribu....

Andersonville (the Movie)
Five hundred men moved silently toward the gates that would shut out life and hope for most of them forever. Quarter of a mile from the railroad we came into a massive palisade with great squared logs standing upright in the ground. Fires blazed up and showed us a section of these and two massive wo....

Article review of Classmates Divided by Mary Elizabeth Sergent
This article tells about the classmates who graduated from West Point who were forced to turn on each other during the Civil War. However, because of how demanding life at the academy was, they developed a strong companionship for each other that lasted a lifetime, despite the bloody conflict of t....

Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation The Articles of Confederation was the first constitution of the United States of America. The Articles of Confederation were first drafted by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in 1777. This first draft was prepared by a man named John Dick....

Articles of Confederation
Through 1781 to 1789, America experienced a rebirth of the governance in the colonies through the creation of the Articles of Confederation. It served as a huge foundation for the government of America for centuries to come; however, it was not without flaws. Shortly after winning independence from ....

Articles of confederation and the united states constitution
The Articles of Confederation and the United States constitution are both historically important documents. The Articles and the Constitution have both helped the United States of America become what we are today. The constitution was created as a last resort caused by Shays rebellion which occu....

Articles of Confederation vs US Constitution
In the history of the United States of America, our government has been defined by two very important documents. These documents were the brainchildren of groundbreaking men. By reflecting on all governments of the past, they laid forth an impressive hodgepodge of ideas that would lead the way to wh....

Articles of Confederation vs. Constitution
After the new United States of America won it's Independence, they realized they needed to form some sort of Government system. A Governmental system was needed for a few reasons. Firstly, the 13 states needed something to unite them together to prove they were as one. Secondly, to run efficiently e....

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and Conspiracy
On April 12, 1865, three days after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that included his desire to make the freed negroes made American Citizens. John Wilkes Booth was in the crowd, that day, and having heard Lincoln's words, became extremely aggitat....

baseball during the civil war
The history of baseball is intertwined with the history of the Civil War. It was during the Civil War that the cultural impact of the game took root. And it was the soldiers during the Civil War who helped make the game what it is today. The game of baseball started to take shape in the ea....

Battle of Chancellorsville
The Battle of Chancellorsville seems to be the less interesting war of the United States during the Civil War. The Civil War paved the road to American way of governing and thinking, and yet the actual war nearly ruined the whole country. The War started out as a pursuit for freedom, and ended up a ....

Battle of Gettysburg
During the days between July 1st through July 4th of 1863 was what some consider the turning point of the war. This battle was called the Battle of Gettysburg. Gettysburg is a town in southern Pennsylvania. This battle actually happened by accident. The Confederate Army was m....

Battle of Gettysburg
The American Civil War was fought over cultural, social, and economical beliefs that divided the nation. The war set father against son, brother against brother, and American against American. The Civil War was a violent, devastating war that claimed the lives of over 620,000 men on both sides....

Battles of civil war
?Essay ?Discuss the key battles of the Civil War, explaining why a particular battle was considered important. ? There were many battles of the Civil War but the Key Battles not only determined the conditions of the War but also the outcome. The war began with the Confederate attack of Fort Sum....

Beloved by Toni Morrison : Scars
A scar is not only a physical mark on the body, but can also be a memory that is not forgotten. Scars are wounds to a person that influence the way they live their life after they have been scarred. The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison contains many characters who have had experiences significant en....

Ben Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was one of the most influential people in American history. Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in a small town in Boston. Benjamin was one of ten children. His father, Josiah was a candle and soap maker, and his mother Abiah Folger was a homemaker. When Benjamin was only twelve....

Ben Franklins life
Benjamin Franklin Being an inventor, author, ambitious, and one of the founding fathers, only could describe one person. This man is Benjamin Franklin. Being one of the most influential people in American history, Ben Franklin had a very exciting and yet interesting life. He helped shape this wor....

Bismarks role in German Unification
How important was the role of Bismark in the unification of Germany ? Some historians believe that Bismark realised his goal of a Kleindeutsch by taking advantage of skilful diplomacy and manipulating the situations that presented themselves. Others believe that German unification was inevitable ....

black soldiers
During the seventeenth, Eighteenth and part of the nineteenth Century Black people were slaves. The white people of North America used the Blacks for their own benefit. African Americans had no rights; they were seen as objects, which could be sold and bought. However the Civil War was a key turning....

Blacks in the US - Famous people and organisations
Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan is a still present racist organisation in the Southern United States. It is also known as the Invisible Empire. The original Ku Klux Klan was established on December, 24th 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee. The six founders were six officers who belonged to the Confedera....

Bleeding Kansas
The Compromise of 1850 brought relative calm to the nation. Though most blacks and abolitionists strongly opposed the Compromise, the majority of Americans embraced it, believing that it offered a final, workable solution to the slavery question. Most importantly, it saved the Union from the terribl....

BNA act of Canada
Confederation was accomplished when Queen Victoria gave royal assent to the British North America Act (BNA Act) on March 29, 1867. That act, which united the Province of Canada with the colonies of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, came into effect on July 1 that year. The act dissolved the Act of ....

Book Review for The Killer Angels
The Killer Angels. By Micheal Shaara. (New York: David McKay, 2003. Pp 345. $7.99) The book The Killer Angel discusses the four days of a battle which is also known as the Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point of the Civil War. The author, Michael Shaara, does a great job of imagery. He help....

California State Standards 11.1.2
In 1773 the British told the British East India Company it could send tea to America without paying the taxes. All other tea traders still had to pay a tax. The Americans refused to buy any tea and refused to unload the tea from the British ships in the American ports. About fifty men from the Sons ....

Canada's Constitutional dignity
Constitutional Dignity Since its unification, Canada has been searching for methods to acquire a unique identity. Canada, wants to be recognized as a successful and prosperous independent country. Although it is blatantly obvious that Canada wants to be considered as a unique nation, it finds it ha....

Canada's world war one contribution: the warfront
On August 4, 1914, Britain and all its colonies entered what would become the First World War. Canadas entry into the war was supported by all parties of the House of Commons and the peoples response was mostly positive as well. Though Canadas war effort was originally meant to serve Britain, ....

Canadian Historical Injustices
The Canadian government has had a long and disgraceful history of racist policies and practices. It has undertaken many legal measures to deter or assimilate other races and to profit from their injustice. These measures include, but are not limited to: the head tax on all Chinese people entering ....

Cath a chur ar Beal Feriste is Éire/The War over Belfast and Ireland
My father, more Irish than I, has no idea what the title of my paper says . To him its just a bunch of letters put together, possibly some foreign language. He was surprised to learn that it is the language of his ancestors, the Irish. The official language of the Emerald Isle is Irish, which is ....

causes of the civil war
The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there ....

Causes of the Civil War
Causes Of The Civil War The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was up to four decades of great sectional conflict between the two....

Civil War
The Civil War is acknowledged as the greatest war in American history. Known as "The War that Never Ended". Nearly three million fought, and 600,000 died. It was the only war fought on American soil by Americans, and for that reason we have always been fascinated with The Civil War. On April 12, 186....

Civil war
The Civil war, sometimes called the War Between the States, took place from 1861 to 1865. The battles took place from the Mississippi River to the east coast. The Civil War was started because the South left the North to try and preserve slavery, but the North didnt want slavery, there....

Civil War
The foundation for black participation in the Civil War began more than a hundred years before the outbreak of the war. Blacks in America had been in bondage since early colonial times. In 1776, when Jefferson proclaimed mankinds inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, th....

Civil War
With the election of the anti-slavery Republican candidate for President, Abraham Lincoln, the Southern states decided they had to take drastic action in order to protect their own interests. On December 20, 1860, a secession convention met in South Carolina and adopted an Ordinance of Secession fro....

Civil War tour of Savannah - David D'Arcy
I learned a lot about Savannah's history from just reading this book. D'Arcy did a splendid job of showing every aspect of Savannah's contributions to the civil war. There was a key battle that took place right down the street from our homes. A lot of us don't even realize how important Savannah ....

Civil War; A sucess or a failure
The Civil War was originally meant to fix the grievances that the North and the South had with each other, but rather then fixing these grievances the Civil War only made the grievances between them worse. Many of the grievances between the North and the South had to do with racial problems, ec....

Civil Wars Empowerment of Women
During the course of the United States Civil War, women of the slaveholding class of the South were forced to undergo a great deal of unforeseen changes in the way they conducted their everyday lives. This class of women was unable to ignore the events that were taking place around them and was com....

Cold Mountain
The setting for Cold Mountain is in the state of North Carolina during the Civil War time period. Most of the key events happen in Cold Mountain. Inman tries to go back to Cold Mountain because Ada's home is near Cold Mountain. When he reaches Cold Mountain he can go to Ada's home. The plot of Cold ....

Cold Mountain: Character or Setting?
Imagine a landmark whose very existence is apparent in all of its inhabitants; A landmark with such omniscient character that it pulsed with life always affecting the lives of the people who thrived off of it. This is exactly the sort of atmosphere created by Charles Frazier in his award winning nov....

Confederation and Constitution
After the American Revolution, a new government had to be established. The Constitution that was written took power away from the people. It led to rebellions from poor people and farmers.Daniel Shays, a former Revolutionary Army captain, led a rebellion with farmers, against laws which were not fai....

Confederation of Canada
Political Deadlock Each region (Canada West & Canada East) had an equal number of seats on the Legislative Assembly. This made it possible of one group to stop legislation that the other group wanted to pass . Opposing sides would have disagreements over every issue making no head way for either....

congress of vienna
By the end of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era, and the demise of Napoleon Bonaparte I, Europe was in turmoil and needed a plan to settle the tensions left after the war and decide how to restore Europe. In 1815, the four powers of Europe formed what was called The Congress of Vie....

Constitutional Influences
ROMAN INFLUENCES Philosophers thought that Rome had provided its citizens with the most freedoms the world had ever known. Because of their fondness for the Romans, the architecture of many buildings in Washington, D.C. reflects the "classical" style Democratic Republic. The United States' gov....

Corporate Social Responsability Mexico
Corporate Social Responsability in Mexico The emergence of Corporate Social Responsibility in Mexico is still in an early phase. It is associated more with corporate philanthropy. For instance, companies tend to get socially involved by donating to charities which are tax deductible. The lack ....

Defining Moments in Canadian History
In 1867 Canada became a country as the result of the act of Confederation but continued to be dependent to the British Empire especially when it came to the defence of Canada. Over the last century Canada's involvement in two world wars put enormous strains on its society or that this, at the same t....

Did the German Confederation help the move towards German unification?
Napoleon, who had been emperor of France since 1804 was finally defeated in June of 1815 at the Battle of Waterloo. He Left Europe a changed place having greatly upset most of the countries ways of doing things. He had re-drawn the map of Europe and the original 400 states of the Holy Roma....

do you think students are getting to much homework?
do you think that high school students are having to much homework? Student at Otay Ranch high school do, they have written a proposalthat will ban teachers from giving more than one hour and a half of homework. No one would argue that homework is a good thing for every student, but over....

Election of Lincoln and Civil War
How did the election of Lincoln to president in 1860 lead to civil war in the United States of America?Essay:In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected as president of the United States of America, the repercussions of which led to civil war. However it was not only Lincoln’s election that led to civ....

Emancipation Proclamation: Abraham Lincoln
I. INTRODUCTION Abraham Lincoln gave many great speeches throughout his life, and his presidential term. Out of all of these great speeches, there is one that stands out above the rest. That speech was the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln was against slavery one hundred percent. While others want....

Evaluating Reconstruction
The end of the Civil War called for a reform in American society towards more egalitarian ideologies. The Thirty-Ninth Congress was summoned to address the issues over slavery and the control of the South. Their plan was called Reconstruction, and it was the Radical Republicans that strongly push....

Evauation of the Reconstruction Era 1865 - 1877
Essay Status of race relations at the end of the reconstruction was the direct consequence of the policies of Johnson and Congress during this period. Evaluate this statement based on: Mississippi: The past that has not died, By Walter Lord; and, The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877, By Kenneth M....

Factors in the Process of German Unification
Germany was the last of the great European powers to achieve political unity. In 1815, 39 independent German states stretched north and south from the Baltic Sea to the Alps, and east and west from the Rhine River to Russia. Political rivals Austria and Prussia were the most powerful of these German....

Federalist and the Philadelphia convention
A nation without a national government is, in my view, an awful spectacle. --Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist Papers, No. 85 The Federalists, as a rule, were advocates of a strong central government. They were the supporters of the constitution who advocated its ratification. The federalists....

Federalist Papers
The Federalist, known to us today as the Federalists papers is a series of 85 essays made in which to support the ratification of the United States constitution. The Federal Convention sent the Constitution to the Confederation Congress to get it ratified the end of September 1787. The Cons....

First Three Presidents
Alexis Serrano September 20, 2008 US History Washington, Adams, Jefferson There were many differences between the first three presidents. George Washington is the base of the government. It started out rough, but he fixed it and as of today, we govern by it. He had first made the Articles of ....

Fort Sumnter
Fort Sumter was the location of the opening of the Civil War (Hesseltine). This military fortress is located in Charleston, South Carolina (Hesseltine). Fort Sumter sits on an artificial island and it is one of four military fortresses in the Charleston harbor (Yoesloff 22). The fort sits at t....

Fort Sumter
The secession of South Carolina having dissolved her connection with the government of the United States, the question of the possession of the forts in the harbor and of the military post at the arsenal became at once a question of vital interest to the State. Able commissioners, Robert W. Barnwell....

French-Canadian and English-Canadian Relations
French-Canadian and English-Canadian Relations In surveying some of the events in the twentieth century, a historian might be able to demonstrate that the province of Quebec would be better off as a sovereign nation than it was as a badly-treated member of the Canadian Confederation. For example,....

George B. McClellan
George B. McClellan George B McClellan was born in Philadelphia, December 3, 1826, and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was commissioned major general in the regular army and, after the First Bat....

george washington
George Washington was born on Feb. 22, 1732 (Feb. 11, 1731/2, old style) in Westmoreland County, Va. While in his teens, he trained as a surveyor, and at the age of 20 he was appointed adjutant in the Virginia militia. For the next three years, he fought in the wars against the French and Indians, s....

George Washington
George Washington is often called "the father of his country" for his crucial role in fighting for, creating and leading the United States of America in its earliest days. Washington was a surveyor, farmer and soldier who rose to command the colonial forces in the Revolutionary War. His success in t....

George Washington
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. "As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent," he wrote James Madison, "it is devoutl....

German History
A Consise History Of Germany IMPORTANT DATES AD 9 Germanic warriors decisively defeated Roman forces at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. 486 The Frankish king Clovis overran the Roman province of Gaul. Clovis introduced features of Roman life into western Germany. 843 The Treaty of Verdun di....

Gone With The Wind
The film opens with Scarlett OHara surrounded by admirers, but she is crushed when her father, Gerald OHara, tells her of Ashley Wilkess upcoming marriage to his cousin Melanie Hamilton. Scarletts father also reminds her of the importance and permanence of the land and their home, Tara, but ....

Gone With The Wind
As the movie begins, Scarlett OHara, the main character, is shown with two men flirting with her. There is talk of a Barbecue the next day at Twelve Oaks, the Gerald OHara is coming back from Twelve Oaks, and Scarlett meets him on the road to ask if the rumor her slave had told her is true. That....

Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy
Mike McQuatters Book Review In Richard s. Brownlees Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy you as a reader get an understanding of what type of war took place in the west. It was not the same type of civil war that took place in the East between organized military forces but rather completely diff....

Ground Beneath Her Hands- Cold Mountain
The ground beneath her hands The novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier as a whole, is a historically based fictional story which encompasses factual relevance to the time period and setting. With each chapter adding meaning to the central themes and motifs throughout the story, the grou....

Harriet Tubman- Feminist/ abolitionist
My name in Harriet Tubman and my life has been a monument to courage and determination that continues to stand out in American history. Many people may deserve this Historic Achievement Award, and I am here to convince you why my life of devotion and goodwill deserves acknowledgment. I was bor....

herpes
In What Major Respects Had Europe Changed By 1971 From The Situation In 1815? From the 1815 until the 1871, Europe underwent a great change. As the revolution of the 1830s showed, the Vienna Settlement did not last, even though the great European powers were able for a while to take the situatio....

History of Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was an American politician and the fourteenth President of the United States. He was born in a log cabin near Hillsborough, New Hampshire, on November 23, 1804. Pierce was the seventh of eight children; he had four brothers and three sisters. Pierce's father was Benjamin Pierce, a fr....

History of St. Croix Island and Port Royal
History of St. Croix Island and Port Royal Settlements and the Passamaquoddy Indians St. Croix Island has been the called the beginning of the U.S. and Canada since its settlement in 1604. St. Croix Island is located in the St. Croix River. It is about four miles from the mouth of the river....

How did the U.S. constitution protect against tyranny?
During The American Revolution (1775-1783) the United Sates was governed unsuccessfully under the Articles of Confederation and was in desperate need of a new Constitution. Keeping their motives for fighting in mind, the Founding Father constructed a Constitution to protect the American population f....

How was Bismarck able to use blood and iron to secure German Unification in 1871?
The way Otto von Bismarck understood and interpreted politics was of great importance for Prussias achievement of the German Unification. Bismarck strongly believed that this major issue would not be decided by speeches and resolutions of majorities, but by blood and iron. This phrase ever aft....

Hudsons Bay Company
During the 17th 18th and 19th centuries the |Hudson's Bay Company has been involved with trapping, trading, exploration, creating forts and capturing forts. But what the Hudson's Bay company should be characterized by is laying the building blocks of not only 4 of Canada's western cities but the ....

Impact of the Anti-Federalists
The drafting of the U.S. Constitution involved days and days of debate and compromise between the delegates. The task at hand was to repair the Confederate government and institute a system that would comply with the needs of the newly found country. After its completion, the representatives divide....

Indian removal
If the United States government were to support the reparations to the descendents of African American slaves it would be an admitting of their responsibility. This is an issue that the United States government does not want to bring back to the forefront. To them, slavery is an occurrence in histor....

Ineffectiveness of the Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation Once they had gained their independence from England in 1775, the leaders of the newly formed United States produced the Articles of Confederation, which formally fashioned a confederacy of states who were controlled primarily by the state governor but also answered t....

Italy
ITALIAN REPUBLIC I. INTRODUCTION The Italian Republic, most known as Italy, is a peninsula located in the south-central part of the European mainland, and it is known for its "boot-shaped". It is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and bordering Austria, France, Switzerland, and Slovenia. Italy als....

Jackson vs. McClellan
General Lee said, to be a good soldier you must love the army, to be a good general you must be prepared to order the death of the thing you love, and therein lies the great trap of soldiering. When you attack you must hold nothing back." Thomas J. Jackson was both a good soldier and a good general.....

James Henry Hammond of the Old South
James Henry Hammond and the Old South is the biography of James Henry Hammond, a Southern planter and Congressman. He was raised by his father, Elisha Hammond, who was adamant that James be something great. Although poor, Elisha always provided for his children the best that he could and he made sur....

James Longstreet and the Battle of Fredericksburg
James Longstreet: An Untarnished Legacy There is no doubt that James Longstreet had a significant influence on the strategy and tactics that emerged during the Civil War, but after the war, many regarded Longstreets strategies and tactics as the reason why the war was lost, thus creating ....

James M. McPherson - American Civil War Writer
James M. McPherson was born North Dakota and raised in Minnesota. Also, Mr. McPherson went and graduated from Johns Hopkins University. While he was in the university, he got mentored by C. Vann Woodward. James McPherson is one of the greatest American Civil War writers, and not just said by me....

Killer Angels
The dictionary defines the word noble as dignified, decent, righteous, and splendid. In the quote by Churchill he describes the civil war as being the noblest of conflicts, but the only noble thing about it was the fight against slavery. The war was not just fought over slavery, but also regionalis....

Killer Angels
The Killer Angels, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Shaara, tells the story of the Civil War. More specifically, The Killer Angels gives a vivid overview of the Battle of Gettysburg. The book takes place from June 29 through July 3 of 1863 in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvan....

King Philips' War
King Philips War In 1620 the Europeans settlers established their first permanent settlement in Southern New England. They named this settlement Plymouth after the town in England they had come from. At this time the settlers and the Natives relationship was peaceful. The settlers needed the Na....

kkk
The KKK was started in the spring of 1866. Six Confederate veterans formed a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee. The Klan was a small secret group at first. The exact date of the beginning is unknown. Despite all of the secrecy, the six KKK members initiated new members to join their social club. A y....

KKK
How was the behavior of the Ku Klux Klan similar at the time of its organization to today? The original Ku Klux Klan was organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain white supremacy. After the Civil War local ....

Ku Klux Klan
Mark Twain once wrote, The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice. This quote means so much by saying so little. What he means by this is that all history that has ever been recorded has been done so with prejudice. In the early days it would have been more towards ....

Life and Influence of Lewis Morris
"We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union..." these, the words of a masterful orator and powerful statesman, were the product of one of the most powerful, and influential men in the founding of our country. Governor Lewis Morris, the delegate from New Jersey to the Constitutional Conve....

Likelihood of Compliance of Unusual or Usual Requests from Male or Female
Likelihood of Compliance 1 Running head: COMPLIANCE FROM UNUSUAL/USUAL REQUESTS & GENDER Likelihood of Compliance of Unusual or Usual Requests from Male or Female Negar Shakibai, Jennifer Stier, and Niloofar Behmanesh University of California, Los Angeles ....

Lincolns and Booth. Before, During and After Assassination
It was Good Friday. April 14, 1865. Homes and Buildings in Washington, D.C. were lit up, in celebration of the end of the War Between the North and the South. Though many believed the beginning of the end came with Confederate General Robert E. Lee riding his horse Traveler, into the town of Appo....

Lincolns Death
Lincolns Assassination Abraham Lincoln was a great president. He had done so many things that had affected his life and presidency, as well as the Civil War. Lincoln had been in office as president throughout all the years of the Civil War. Lincoln had run against four other candidates in the....

Louisiana Purchase
Several great American Statesmen were pivotal in shaping and molding the government of the United States. History has since forgotten some of these founding fathers. The ones remembered throughout history are those we hold up for their accomplishments. Thomas Jefferson is one of the American Statesm....

Many Faces of the Klu Klux Klan
Abstract Throughout the history of the Ku Klux Klan there have been many men that stand out. Most of the men associated with the Klan were filled with hatred and violence which showed in there actions and intolerance towards others. Intimidation, beatings and killings have been common place for....

Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, for nearly half a century known and celebrated as "Mark Twain," was born in Florida, Missouri, on November 30, 1835. He was one of the foremost American philosophers of his day; he was the world's most famous humorist of any day. During the later years of his life he ranked....

McPhearson Book Review, for cause and comrades
What made the men from the Civil War time period risk their lives while everyone around them was being shot and killed? Why did volunteers and men who suffered many casualties fight in the Civil War? Those questions are exactly what For Cause and Comrade was based on and tried to answer. The aut....

Medicine During the Civil War
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Beginning with the haunting faces of many young women who are pictured on the cover, to the many illustrations through out, Drew Gilpin Faust teaches us about the thoughts and activities that occupied the daily lives of the women of the Confederacy during the Civil War. Mothers of Invention explor....

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Pickett's Charge: The High Tide of the Confederacy
The year 1863 was a pivotal year for our nation who was at the time engaged in a bitter civil war. In the preceding two years, the South had shown its superiority on the battlefield and had won almost every time the two armies met. Things were looking bleak in the North as president Abraham Lincol....

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The ethnic group that I belong to and would like to learn more about is the Polish. I am part Polish from my paternal Grandfathers side of my family. He died when I was really young so I dont know anything about my ancestry on this side of my family. Today over 9 million people in America, incl....

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Reflecting back on the history of the United States it is clearly noticeable that several political compromises were made that helped shape the Constitution. The Great Compromise and the Three-Fifths Compromise both had an enormous impact on the Constitution. It was necessary to compromise on ea....

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Racism is a social problem that has occurred many years ago and it has passed through many phases. The oldest and most harmful of all is slavery. As we see from the The problem of slavery and persecution with the discovery of the New World, the institution of slavery grew to proportions greater than....

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Ratifying The Constitution Question: What were the major arguments used by each side (the supporters and the opponents) in the debates over the ratification of the U.S. Constitution? Answer: In 1787, the Constitution was formed to restore the Articles of Confederation, because it was felt th....

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The Annexation of Texas was one of the most debatableevents in American history. The question at hand would, in eitherwhich way chosen, deeply impact the United States for generationsto come. There was on one side a long list of reasons for why to notallow annexation, but there was the same kind of ....

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A new era was set in America after the North had taken the upper hand in the Civil War. How was the federal government going to readmit the southern states that became disloyal and seceded from the United States? Radical Republicans wanted the south to face serious punishments for the crimes it comm....

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During the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and part of theNineteenth Century the White people of North America used theBlack people of Africa as slaves to benefit their interests. Whitepeople created a climate of superiority of their race over the BlackAfrican race that in some places, still lingers on tod....

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The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South ....

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From 1781 to 1789 the Articles of Confederation were the primary basis of the U.S. government and did an ineffective job of controlling the newly liberated country. Due to the fact that a couple of things were not thought about very well, the articles had kept the country in an almost declining fall....

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