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  • Regions of Us After Civil War

    Regions of Us After Civil War

    The Civil War left an impressionable mark on the nation as a whole - physically, economically, and furthermore politically. Two of the nations regions most affected was the South and the West. While the south gained political strentgh through a \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"solid south\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" Democracy, their weak reliance on the crop lien system adversel affected their econmy; meanwhile the farmers migrated to the west because of the Homestead Act, their economy suffered in part because of over

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    Submitted: December 4, 2010
  • The American Civil War

    The American Civil War

    The American Civil War This war was a war of epic proportion. Never before and not since have so many Americans died in battle. The American Civil War was truly tragic in terms of human life. In this document, I will speak mainly around those involved on the battlefield in the closing days of the conflict. Also, reference will be made to the leading men behind the Union and Confederate forces. The war was

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    Essay Length: 2,574 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2010
  • Causes of World War 1

    Causes of World War 1

    Causes of World War 1 The Causes of World War I The murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife on the 28th of June caused the lead up to World War I. The Archduke heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in his car during a drive in Sarajevo. The assassination was the work of a terrorist group known as the Black Hand. This caused Austria-Hungary to call on Germany as an ally

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    Submitted: December 5, 2010
  • The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War begin in 14 and end in 1763. The resulted in France's loss of all its possession in North America and The British claims Canada and North American for themselves. Before the war, the most people were ignored the Navigation Act, and they don't pay their tax. Need the money for war, British's government started to forces people pay their tax. In 1764, The Sugar Act is passed by the English

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    Submitted: December 5, 2010
  • The Civil War

    The Civil War

    The Civil War:(The Crisis of War) Why did the Civil War occur? The Civil War was a crisis of growth. In less than three quarters of a century, thirteen old British colonies created a nation with a powerful economy. The young U.S profited from their colonial past as well as the land which procured immense amount of resources and possibilities. The history of the U.S from 1789 to 1865 showed problems of men and resources

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    Submitted: December 5, 2010
  • Philip Caputo's a Rumor of War

    Philip Caputo's a Rumor of War

    Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War, is a very realistic and harrowing account of the Vietnam War from a soldiers perspective. Caputo's approach to depicting the Vietnam War is very intriguing, because you see the war as he saw it. The reader grows with the author as he changes from a young starry-eyed soldier, dreaming of "bayonet charges, and desperate battles against impossible odds." (Caputo, p. 14) To a weathered warrior fighting not only an

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    Submitted: December 5, 2010
  • American War for Independence

    American War for Independence

    Perhaps the most famous of all progressive historians is Frederick Jackson Turner. His most famous argument is not devoted strictly to the American Revolution, but instead to the effects of the American frontier. In a sentence, his argument is that the frontier was the chief determinant in American history. This is not to say that Turner did not write about the war; he did. Even in his seminal work, The Frontier in American History, there

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    Submitted: December 5, 2010
  • Hollywood Goes War

    Hollywood Goes War

    Saving Private Ryan Sai Sunkara Hollywood Goes War 8/16/06 1a. From blood splattering onto the camera to shots of the soldiers drowning in the water, Spielberg managed to bring the graphic events at Normandy to life. From the very opening sequence at Omaha beach, the scenes are blurry and the scene is very chaotic. The gray scaled color helps give the audience the seasickness effect. Also with the first boats that land at the coasts,

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    Submitted: December 5, 2010
  • Cold War: Bridging the Gap to Peace

    Cold War: Bridging the Gap to Peace

    Cold War: Bridging the Gap to Peace One might argue that the Cold War divided the world which is still present today. It also pulled countries' ties with other countries further apart. However, these people fail to realize that the main superpowers of the Cold War are closer together than ever before. Both The United States and Russia (former U.S.S.R.) are now working together to limit the number of strategic arms further from what was

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    Submitted: December 6, 2010
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    In the post World War II era, a war arose between the Soviet Union and the United States, but in reality there was never really any documented fighting between the two nations, thus spawning the catch phrase "Cold War." Even though both countries were ready to go to war at the blink of an eye and almost did, the powers-that-be never got the nerve to authorize a nuclear war that would have made World War

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    Submitted: December 6, 2010
  • Was Northern Victory in the Civil War Inevitable?

    Was Northern Victory in the Civil War Inevitable?

    Several factors played in to the American Civil War that made it have the outcome that it did. Although the South had better trained officials due to their military school, the North was far more advanced than they. The North had the advantage over the South in several ways. However, the outcome of the Civil War was not inevitable: it was determined as much by human decisions and human willpower as by physical resources, although

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    Submitted: December 6, 2010
  • War with Iraq

    War with Iraq

    The war with Iraq began about fifteen years ago. Still to this day people are torn between going to war and trying to keep peace with Iraq. Back when the United States first had a problem with Iraq was when they invaded Kuwait in 1990, and refused to leave. Their were three main causes that made Iraq invade Kuwait. The Iraqi leaders have always considered Kuwait to be part of Iraq because of the way

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    Submitted: December 6, 2010
  • Why the South Could Not Win the Civil War

    Why the South Could Not Win the Civil War

    The American antebellum South, though rich in pride and raised in military tradition, was to be no match for the promising superiority of the rapidly developing North in the coming Civil War. Their lack of readily trained men, in conjunction with social and economical issues, made the Civil War a joke for the North, and a disaster for the South. The paramount reason the South fell well short of a victory was the obvious difference

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    Submitted: December 7, 2010
  • The Peloponnesian War

    The Peloponnesian War

    Look at Perikles' funeral oration. Identify and discuss the main ideas in it. In, Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, a description of the Athenians burial rites is significantly described. Perikles, the son of Xanthippos has been chosen to speak to the crowd at the mass funeral. He addresses the people on a political stand point, identifying specific topics of the city. Such as, the form of government being democratic, warfare that is not imitated and psychological

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    Submitted: December 7, 2010
  • War on Iraq

    War on Iraq

    War on Iraq Since the commencement of the controversial war in Iraq, people have been looking for other solutions to the conflict. Many suggestions have been voiced, but none so much and so loudly as the suggestion of simple assassination. People do not understand that assassination is not only impossible, but also never an end to conflict. Assassination of Saddam Hussein is not a viable option to end the U.S. conflict in Iraq. The first

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    Submitted: December 7, 2010
  • Amercan Civil War

    Amercan Civil War

    American Civil War No event in U.S. history evokes controversy like a discussion of the causes of The American Civil War. From old men to great authors and politicians, the argument rages on. "Slavery was the issue that hung the South and caused the Civil War." Another argument: "It was because the South seceded." Yet others argue that it was "industry" versus "agriculture" or in other words, Hamiltonians versus Jeffersonians. However, the Civil War was

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    Submitted: December 8, 2010
  • Civil War in Congo

    Civil War in Congo

    The recent Civil War in Congo has been a bloody flight, causing more then 3.3 million deaths in just 4 short years.1 Various rebel and ethnic groups have have been involved in the violence, fighting over Congo's rich natural resources or engaged in a bitter ethnic war. With so many opposing factions, it has made reaching a solution difficult. While a rough peace treaty has been established, sporadic fighting pops up in the country

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    Submitted: December 8, 2010
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    The first major land battle was fought at Bull Run in Virginia in 1861. The men who were soldiers in these armies were volunteers who chose to go to war. They wanted to win a quick victory but instead found that there was a lot of marching and drill, living outdoors, disease, bad weather, and boredom. Where did all the soldiers who fought at Gettysburg come from? Why did they choose to go to war?

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    Submitted: December 8, 2010
  • Reconstruction of America After Civil War

    Reconstruction of America After Civil War

    At the close of the American Civil War in 1865, the United States' government was faced with the tremendously difficult problem of re-integrating the Confederate States into the Union. Between 1865 and 1877 this problem was addressed by various forms of "Reconstruction," programs whose goals also included the rebuilding of the ravaged Southern economy, and the integration of freed slaves and other African Americans into citizenship and culture at large. Complicated by an incompetent president,

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    Submitted: December 8, 2010
  • Slavery and the War

    Slavery and the War

    SLAVERY AND THE WAR The institution of slavery was changed in two ways by the war. In the first place there was a degree of de facto emancipation in that wherever Federal armies held Southern ground, slaves would leave their masters. These "contrabands"Ð'--first named as such by Benjamin ButlerÐ'--had a shadowy legal status and this was partly a function of political considerations, Lincoln not wishing to get too far out ahead of public opinion with

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    Submitted: December 8, 2010
  • Civil War Camp Life (talking Points)

    Civil War Camp Life (talking Points)

    Civil War Army Rations According to army regulations for camp rations, a Union soldier was entitled to receive daily: 12 oz of pork or bacon or 1 lb. of fresh or salt beef; 1 lb. of soft bread or flour 1 lb. of hard bread, or 1 lb. of cornmeal. Per every 100 rations there was issued; 1 peck of beans or peas; 10 lb. of rice or hominy; 10 lb. of green coffee, 8

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    Submitted: December 9, 2010
  • Vietnam War History

    Vietnam War History

    Sometime between 200 B.C. and A.D. 200, the intermingling of the Red River Delta's early inhabitants resulted in a distinct Vietnamese people. Virtually from the outset, the Vietnamese were ruled by the Chinese, and they would continue to be until A.D. 938. During the centuries of Chinese control over the Red River Delta, two independent states rose to power in what is now central and southern VietNam. From the first to the sixth centuries, the

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  • What Was World War 2 Like?

    What Was World War 2 Like?

    What was World War Two like? 1. What was your/ your family's reaction to hearing about the war? Everyone was scared. I remember sitting in the front room listening to my aunt tell us. 2. Where were you when you heard about the war? I was at home, on the farm. We didn't have a radio so our aunt from Toledo came and told us all about it. 3. Did most of the men goto

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  • After the Glory: the Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans

    After the Glory: the Struggles of Black Civil War Veterans

    Behind the current Clinton scandal stands the specter of Watergate. That it should be there is understandable. The bungled burglary at the Democratic Party national headquarters occurred twenty-six years ago this past summer. Next August will see the twenty-fifth anniversary of Richard Nixon's resignation as President of the United States. Watergate then is still very much a part of living memory, and living memory is the type of history most relevant to the general public

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  • Relations Between England and It's Colonies After the French/indian War

    Relations Between England and It's Colonies After the French/indian War

    In the early years of colonial settlement in the Americas, the struggle for land ownership between European countries seemed everlasting. One feud between Great Britain and France led to the French and Indian War during the mid 18th century. After the war was over in 1763, the political, economic and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies were altered. Although altered, not all would agree that they were altered for the worse. Soldiers on

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    Submitted: December 9, 2010

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