The American Civil War Essays and Term Papers

What is Transcendentalism?

What is Transcendentalism? Readers have asked this question often. Here's my answer: When I first learned about Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in high school English class, I admit: I couldn't figure out what the term "Transcendentalism" meant. I couldn't ...

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Gadsden Purchase

The Gadsden Purchase is a 29,670 square mile region that makes up present day southern Arizona, and southwestern New Mexico. The territory was purchased by the United States in a treaty signed by James Gadsden. As the railroad age progressed, business-oriented Southerners saw that a railroad ...

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Slavery and Proto-Socialist Thought

Slavery and Proto-Socialist Thought Since the American Civil War almost 150 years ago, slavery has been painted as a indelible, perpetual wrong in the history of a fledgling nation. Racked with liberal guilt, America has never shown it is truly comfortable delving through the counter-cultures ...

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David Livingstone

Born: March 19, 1813 Blantyre, Scotland Died: May 1, 1873 Chitambo, Northern Rhodesia Life Span: 60 years, 1 month, 12 days SELDOM ARE GOD'S GREAT GIANTS HONORED by the worldbut Livingstone joins the class of men who rank as the greatest explorers the world has ever produced. Marco Polo, ...

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The Slave Trade

Intro: Slavery, the owning of slaves as a practice or institution. The condition of being a slave, bondage, servitude. Slave, a human who is owned as property by, and is absolutely subject to the will of another: bondservant divested of all freedom and personal rights. Hard to believe but on of ...

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Civil War - North Vs. South

In the early American colonies, the south and the north developed into two distinctly different colonies. Although their origins were both from Europe, their customs and living habits became so different that it would play a major role in America’s history. There are many reasons why these ...

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Effects Of Hypocrisy In A Rose for Emily

Clinging to the Past in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily The end of the American Civil War also signified the end of the Old South's era of greatness. The south is depicted in many stories of Faulkner as a region where "the reality and myth are difficult to separate"(Unger 54). Many southern ...

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James Longstreet

James Longstreet He was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War and a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, he resigned from the U.S. Army when his native state seceded from the Union he was made a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. He fought in the first and ...

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Marijuana

Marijuana, a drug that has been studied for many decades, provides for a very heated argument. No longer is it seen solely as a hallucinogen, but some claim that it is miracle drug for chemotherapy and glaucoma patients. However, no legitimate medical organizations, see marijuana as a safe and ...

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Sixteen Most Significant Events In US History Between 1789 To 1975

After a review of United States' history from 1789 to 1975, I have identified what I believe are the sixteen most significant events of that time period. The attached sheet identifies the events and places them in brackets by time period. The following discussion provides my reasoning for ...

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US History

AP US History Review 2009 Session #4 Progressivism-Truman Includes the following chapters from The American Pageant (12th edition): Ch 29-37 Ch 29 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912 Progressivism: The "real heart" of the progressive movement was effort by reformers to - ...

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN

When people are asked to identify which president they feel had the greatest impact on our history, Lincoln's name consistently comes up. But why? Lincoln had little formal education and did not serve in public office but for brief periods prior to becoming president. In short, based on his ...

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Bleeding Ireland And Black America

Fall Road is deserted. Only a few dirt-caked, barefoot, Irishmen can be seen shivering in the adjacent park. We walk past the Catholic neighborhoods knowing, at any moment, buildings might explode and automatic weapon fire could lacerate the air on every side of us. Belfast is charming, apart ...

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Oppressed Slaves To Champion Soldiers

This is just a small example of the doubt and hatred that was bestowed on the African American soldiers. However, during the war, they proved themselves to be brave and courageous men on and off the battlefield on many occasions. Despite deep prejudices and harsh criticisms from the white society, ...

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Abraham Lincoln 3

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Lincoln entered office at a critical period in U. S. history, just before the Civil War, and died from an assassin's bullet at the war's end, but before the greater implications of the conflict could be resolved. He brought to the ...

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The Bell Curve Of African Amer

ican rights has risen and fallen throughout America’s history. The period between the Pre-Civil War Era and the Post Civil War Era, were momentous in displaying the status and rights of African-Americans in the time. As the Civil War approached, the status of African-Americans was an increasingly ...

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War and The African American Community

The importance (and lack of importance) of war in the African American Community In the lived, non-fictional reality of today's present, many individuals such as the African-American politician Representative Charles Rangle of New York City have called for the reinstatement of the draft policy. ...

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Communication Through Pictures

Photographers often communicate through their pictures. Although the camera lens views the world impartially, the photographer constantly judges, deciding what to photograph and how to photograph it. (“Art” Encarta). The Civil War was the first time that photographers changed the way we looked at ...

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Affirmative Action

What is ? This is a question that has plagued our nation since the 1960's. The term itself was coined during this decade. The problem has actually existed since the founding of our country. And the issue of discrimination has been around for much longer than that. Since slavery in the 19th ...

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Killer Angels 2

The Battle of Gettysburg brought the dueling North and South together to the small town of Gettysburg and on the threshold of splitting the Union. Gettysburg was as close as the United States got to Armageddon and The Killer Angels gives the full day-to-day account of the battle that shaped ...

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