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Discuss whether tactical, as opposed to material factors were most decisive in the American Civil War.
... strategy that involved giving up slavery, and therefore giving up one of the main ways of life that they were fighting ... and management of these resources that were most decisive in their victory. Both the tactics of the "offensive-defensive" strategy ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Do you think Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom is authentic? If so, how do you explain the inconsistancies between his three autobiographies?
... defense." (Douglass, pg. 242) escaped slavery, and started his own newspaper. Frederick Douglass became a very important abolitionist and titled, "the representative colored man of ... written, slavery was still in effect. In the Life and Times of Frederick ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Jefferson Davis
... of his handsome appearance and his manner of being a person of some importance. Yet what he said had even more impact. By 1845, slavery ... and Fall of the Confederate Government," in 1881, as a defense against his critics. Eventually he won the admiration of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
History
... of the Louisiana Purchase was that it furthered the division between the North and South. During the era of the Louisiana Purchase, slavery ... . By purchasing Louisiana, Jefferson no longer had a defensive reason to join the war. Consequently, these two ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Susan B. Anthony.
... of equality in her confidence to step forward and voice her opinion. As an active leader of the temperance movement, women's rights and anti-slavery ... with man to the cause of freedom and has stood firmly by his side in its defense. Together they have made ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Robert E. Lee
... of its inability to fashion a viable Southern nationalism, increasing religious doubts that God was on the Confederacy's side and guilt over slavery ... have taken a defensive approach instead of offensive. One of the reasons was the lack of resources made ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Whas The US Better Before or After The American Revolution
... of the United States is put into effect in 1788 and in that same year slavery trade is abolished. Finally near the end of ... Because the British needed tons of money so that they could make up for their large expenditures on defense, they decided to become ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Barbary Pirates
... of state and vice president he had opposed developing an American navy capable of anything more than coastal defense, President Jefferson dispatched a squadron of ... sometimes held for ransom or sold into slavery. For example, in July 1785 the American ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The Gilded Age
... to take the oath of loyalty to the Union. While he did require the states to "repudiate slavery, secession, and the Confederate ... routes and secure a strategic location for national defense. This was just the beginning of America's involvement on the global ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History