Essays Tagged: "1865"
Rudyard Kipling's life
Rudyard KiplingHistoryRudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865 in Bombay, India. His early years in India, until he reached the age of six, seemed to have bee ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Plight of Worker during the Industrial Revolution: A Paradigm Shift from Agriculture to Industry
During the period of time between 1865 and 1900, the United States was going through a difficult time. The country had just come out o ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
My College Plan. A personal experience
Kentucky (The state in which I was born.). From its modest beginnings in 1865, when it was known as a State College, theUniversity of Kentucky has grown into one of the n ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
End of a tradgedy. The road to appomattox
the leading men behind the Union and Confederate forces. The war was beginning to end by January of 1865. By then, Federal (Federal was another name given to the Union Army) armies were spread through ... nder of The Confederate States of America. All of this will most certainly illustrate that April 9, 1865 was indeed the end of a tragedy.CUTTING OFF THE SOUTHIn September of 1864, General William T. S ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
This essay is a breif discripition of how the KKK formed and who the founding fathers were.
m lost their homes and plantations. The people needed a release from the sorrow of everyday life.In 1865, six men from a small town in Tennessee began what has grown to be the largest and most feared ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
American Civil War
tates of the American union against the Southern states. The war raged for four years, from 1861 to 1865, and was marked by some of the fiercest military campaigns in modern history. In this essay, yo ... d over twenty-two million people. The war was well fought by both the North and South, and ended in 1865, with the North easily overpowering the South. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 18 ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Gregor Johann Mendel
ment.Mendels work was reported at a meeting of the Brunn Society for the Study ofNatural Science in 1865, and was published the following year. Mendels paperpresented a completely new and unique docum ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
The origins of the Ku Klux Klan.
On December 24, 1865, in the law office of Judge Thomas Jones, in the small town of Pulaski, TN, near the Alabama bo ... be induced into leaving their house after nightfall.The speed at which the organization grew during 1865 through 1866 was outrageous, especially considering the group still had no primary purpose exce ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
An essay that talks about the life of Lewis Carroll
lish writer, a photographer, and a mathematician. Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865,he then wrote Through The Looking Glass in 1872. He was a skilled photographer that enjoyed pho ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
13 and 14 Amendments
13th/14th Amendments With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1865, slavery was officially abolished in the United States. The Reconstruction era was under way in ... d fair wages for their work. (Pgs. 35-38) At a meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society in May 1865, Douglas argued that, "Slavery is not abolished until the black man has the ballot". In 1865, D ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
A historical criticism of Andrew Carnegie
d quickly was promoted through the ranks of Western Union and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. In 1865, he quit and started his own business, the famous and notorious Carnegie Steel Company. His com ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Realism and how authors like Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald give a "tell it like it is" writing in the stories. An author can only write realistically about what he/she knows.
-biology, psychology, and sociology--as well as on their own insights and observations.Realism from 1865 to the present has changed. As authors have moved into a global world, their writing has become ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Religion and the African American experience
reatment based on the color of their skin; despite the fact that they were granted their freedom in 1865, they were still not seen on treated as equals. Since blacks were never treated or seen fairly ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
Cultural identity of blacks from 1865-1940
Cultural Identity from 1865-1940The cultural identity of blacks in the United States from 1865 through 1940 progressed from ... States needed to spread its boundaries to civilize less fortunate, culturally inferior beings after 1865, and throughout the Spanish-American War. Blacks perceived themselves in various ways, as shown ... entertainment industry, and other aspects of the public sphere, divided opinions were present from 1865 through 1940.Between 1876 and 1916, beginning with Philadelphia and ending with San Diego, Amer ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History
The North American Civil War.
The Civil War which took place from the years of 1861-1865 is a crucial part of our history today, this war took more American lives than any other war in ... e war soon came with the South surrendering. In Virginia, Grant at last achieved his goal. In April 1865, he seized the railroads supplying Richmond. The Confederate troops had to evacuate Petersburg ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
Corruption in "the Gangs of New" York by Herbert Asbury
glish, Irish and Germanic, arrived to the United States. The second wave of immigrants started from 1865- 1890, ten million more immigrants from northwestern Europe arrived to the United States. Final ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
The tough times that labor had before and while they were forming unions.
After the Civil War (1861-1865) Americans faced many challenges in dealing with work issues. These challenges provided hardshi ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
"Beat! Beat! Drums!" by Walt Whitman.
Beat! Drums!"The Civil War had a major impact on the people of America through the years of 1861 to 1865. Walt Whitman, a poet and Northerner of this time, wanted to capture the people's reactions of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Civil War battle at Vicksburg.
bility. This was brother against brother-families divided. The Civil War lasted four years, 1861 to 1865."Vicksburg is the key. The war can never be brought to a close until the key is in our pocket," ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars
The failure of the Reconstruction, following the civil war.
free individuals. The Freedmen's Bureau, which was promoted by general O.O. Howard, was created in 1865 to help blacks land on their feet, and acquire some property and receive some education. Many s ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars