Essays Tagged: "Civil War"

Black and White

Black and White Following the Civil War, just prior to the turn of the century, many American novelist were writing more freely of ...

(7 pages) 224 0 3.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

1963: The Hope that Stemmed from the Fight for Equality

icating history of this struggle. The intense hatred of whites for Negroes grew out of the Civil War. One of the reasons for the war was the issue of slavery. When the Confederates lost the w ... milar march in Washington it was stated, 'More significant than the immediate effect the Washington civil rights march would have on the Congress of the U.S., more remarkable than the spectacle itself ...

(7 pages) 80 0 3.5 Nov/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Frederick Douglass' Dream for Freedom

The Civil War was really a war between European-AmericansFrederick Douglass' Dream for EqualityAbolition ... rs, the creation of a Freedmen's Bureau, and most importantly, the incorporation of the black man's civil and political equality into the law of the land (Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendme ... be a very frustrating one for Douglass and many of his supporters. Many of the achievements of the Civil War and Reconstruction were not concrete. It became expedient for northern political and busin ...

(5 pages) 196 0 4.8 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"A Southern Yarn" by R. W. Richards

is an interesting story about what might have happened if General Lee had won a minor battle in the Civil War. The author, R. W. Richards, tries to convince you that the South might have possibly won, ... om are members of the Stonewall Brigade mentioned earlier.The author appears to have researched the Civil War extensively because the book seems to follow the war closely. It has good descriptions of ...

(3 pages) 29 0 3.9 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Why the civil war took place

There were many factors involved in the occurrence of the Civil War. The main and immediate cause of the war was slavery. Southern states, including the 11 st ... ion.On April 12, 1861, the Confederates attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. This started the Civil War. Fort Sumter was surrendered to the South and both sides start to gear up for war. The sou ...

(2 pages) 553 8 4.1 Mar/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

IN DEPTH ANALYSIS AND REASONS FOR THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

evolution, which started on 1789, is about to come to an end after 3 years of revolution in a way a civil war between the rich and the poor, the commons and the nobles. The French Revolution was "The ... e. If Louis XVI wasn't executed, The French Revolution would still go on and France would have both civil war and outside war with Austria. Since the king knew he was going to be captured, he would ru ...

(6 pages) 266 1 4.2 Mar/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution

about slavery and how the civil war started

SlaveryAlthough some historians feel that the Civil War was a result of political blunders and that the issue of slavery did not cause the conflic ... nst slavery and intended to abolish it, the South wanted to split from the North and that's why the civil war started.

(1 pages) 131 1 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Plight of Worker during the Industrial Revolution: A Paradigm Shift from Agriculture to Industry

ns atrocious, the workers' salaries were meager, and they had no benefits or retirement options.The Civil War had created many jobs for unskilled workers. Jobs such as digging trenches for the troops, ...

(2 pages) 100 0 4.3 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Frederick Douglass And Slavery

as well as the condition of free blacks both before and after the Emancipation, the politics of the Civil War, and the failed promise of Reconstruction the followed.As a child, Douglass was taught how ... ne rises, all must rise. As one falls, all must fall.Douglass had an idea to help the North win the Civil War. He proposed that the slaves be freed as a war measure and let the people join the Union A ...

(3 pages) 148 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Walt Whitman's view of the Civil War

Like most of the unprepared, naïve Americans who believed the Civil War would consist of a few short battles and little casualties, who then after the war reached ... short battles and little casualties, who then after the war reached it's second year truly saw the Civil War for what it really was- the bloodiest in America's history; Walt Whitman's 'Drum Taps' rep ... appened.Eventually, Whitman finds himself working in a field hospital during the second half of the Civil War and through his writings, takes a self-reflexive view concerning his former wartime mental ...

(3 pages) 142 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

How the military as an institution promoted prejudices against the black man

The Military as an Institution and the Prejudices it Held."From the Civil War, a war for the right to freedom for the Black man, to Vietnam; the military has held an in ... d against the Black man for their skin color had stood in the military for over a century. From the Civil War, a war for the right to freedom for the Black man, to Vietnam; the military has held an in ... ir pride and accept the reality pushed onto them that they were not good enough.The signups for the Civil war helped to promote the separation of the Black man form the White man. As the Black would a ...

(4 pages) 115 0 4.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

The title is "Civil War Battles Summary." It is a summary of 5 major Civil War battles. I also included a bibliography.

Bull Run (Manassas):Bull Run, the first major battle of the Civil War, was fought in Virginia, near Manassas, on July 21, 1861. The main general of the Federal ... orced to live off the land, killing livestock, eating crops, and taking food from starving southern civilians. Sherman believed that the way to defeat the Confederates was to destroy the Confederate a ... tmas present." By mid-February, the Union flag was flying over Fort Sumter, where the war had begun.Civil War Battles BibliographyMcpherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War. New York, Ne ...

(5 pages) 373 2 4.5 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

"U.S. Immigration - 1875-1910" On Immigration into the U.S. and the Measures the U.S. took to limit immigration. One main focus is Chinese Immigration to the U.S.

hing of that policy until the middle 1900s. After some states passed immigration laws following the Civil War, the Supreme Court ruled in 1875 that the regulation of immigrants is a federal responsibi ...

(4 pages) 401 0 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Samual Langhorne Clemens

e pilot on the Mississippi, and remained on the river, as apprentice and journyman pilot, until the civil war. For about two weeks Clemens served as a second lieutenant in Confederate Army, but he som ...

(4 pages) 50 0 4.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Vietnam War

pation in The Vietnam War, the nation's longest, cost fifty-eight thousand American lives. Only the Civil War and the two world wars were deadlier for Americans. During the decade of Vietnam beginning ... nce. But expanding communist control of Eastern Europe and the triumph of the communists in China's civil was made France's war against Ho seem an anticommunist rather than a colonialist effort. When ...

(7 pages) 240 1 3.8 Jan/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Chisholm Trail

m Mexico. Cattle was branded by the rawhides who guarded them on horseback on the ranges.Before the Civil War, small herds of Texas cattle were driven by the cowboys to New Orleans, some as far west a ... he cattle ranchers to find another trail north.There was a large increase icattle by the end of the Civil War. Over 1,000,000 cattle roamed the open range. At this time, people in the north had money ...

(3 pages) 59 0 3.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays

Grover Cleveland

that did not directly follow each other. He also was the first President who was elected after the Civil War.Grover Cleveland was born the son of a country minister whose name was Richard Falley Clev ...

(2 pages) 47 0 3.0 Sep/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians

Civil War

The Civil War was the culmination of four decades of intense sectional conflictof social and political d ... investment in the south, the labor in the south including nearly four million enslaved blacks. 'The Civil War stands not only as a steppingstone to the lighting war - blitzkrieg- of 1939 to 1945. Poli ... stands not only as a steppingstone to the lighting war - blitzkrieg- of 1939 to 1945. Politically a civil war, militarily it was actually a conflict between two hostile nations- two peoples divided by ...

(9 pages) 174 0 3.7 May/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

"The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a book based on a young soldier engaging in the civil war. The psychological conflict that he faces throughout the story is both internal and extern ... wn.The main topic of the book is fear and how it would affect a young man in a bloody war, like The Civil War. The war becomes the young soldiers worst nightmare, which gives him conflicting thoughts, ...

(5 pages) 124 0 4.7 Apr/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIES IN SPAIN

r able politicians have keep this nation in the second international row. During the past century a civil war followed by international isolation due to the dictatorship established in Spain kept this ... ete in a one-to-one basis with the European corporate giants.2.THE YEARS OF DICTATORSHIPThe Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) marks a sharp stop to the industrialization process which begun in the last de ...

(9 pages) 336 0 3.8 May/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics