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  • The Civil War

    The Civil War

    Several paralles can be drawn between I believe the majority of human beings are born with a clear sense of what is right and what is not right, ethically speaking. Now, assuming that we are all “born” with this sense, and that our ethical beliefs develop over time and with life experiences, I do not believe it would be appropriate for an organization to make attempts to alter a person’s ethical “make-up”. I also believe

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    Essay Length: 660 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Georgia's Role During the Civil War

    Georgia's Role During the Civil War

    Throughout the 1850’s a division in the country between North and South widened. However, in spite of the rising rhetoric, the state of Georgia was far from becoming a “war machine.” In Marietta, the Georgia Military Institute went to the state for funds only three times between 1852 and 1863. Throughout the state, railroads were being built up for economic reasons, not reasons of war. Atlanta was concerned about fighting equipment for its newly formed

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    Essay Length: 685 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Causes of the Civil War

    Causes of the Civil War

    The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to

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    Essay Length: 1,912 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd

    Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd

    The Civil War had a very large affect on all of the States. It changed men from gentlemen that went to church every Sunday and never cussed to people who rarely went to church and cussed all the time. Some of the people in the war were also very corrupt and did not do things as they should be done. The way that the enemy was looked at was even changed. All of these things

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    Essay Length: 1,155 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Max
  • Slavery as a Cause of the Civil War

    Slavery as a Cause of the Civil War

    Document Based Question Slavery as a cause of the Civil War Every epic battle and war story is like a fairy tale. It has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is always a point in the story where a climax is reached, and it is the events that lead up to the eventful climax that matters. The American civil war began in 1861, and it continued on until 1865. The gory details and

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Music of the Civil War

    Music of the Civil War

    The War Between the States was complex. If you wish to understand the events, you should refer to a textbook. Music of the time, however, helps us delve into people’s thoughts and opinions on the war, slavery, and many other important issues in our country’s history. Prior to the civil war, American music followed its European roots. During the civil war, American music began to develop in its own way, largely influenced by the music

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mikki
  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,456 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Vika
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    1102, Spring 2008 Unit 3 Overview: The culmination of Unit 3 is Essay 3, a research paper and the central project of all 1102 classes. We will be doing the essay in parts, using writing tools you’ve been practicing, and introducing new ones. Some of your research and thinking will be done alone, some in groups, some as a class, and all if it will of it is done in response to the research and

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    Essay Length: 713 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Causes and Events of the Civil War

    The Causes and Events of the Civil War

    April 12, 1861 The Causes and Events of the Civil War I had found out that Civil War was led by conflict over issues of how much control the federal government should have over the states, industrialization, trade, and especially slavery. The Northern states (Union) and the Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederacy. These issues increased tension between Northern and Southern states. There were a lot of causes and events

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    Essay Length: 1,072 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Monika
  • 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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    Essay Length: 1,785 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Civil War Era

    Civil War Era

    Civil War Era Historians have yet the answer the question of why, exactly, the Civil War started. In less than 80 years, 31,400,000 (approx.) came to distant land for a chance at a new life. All of them brought with them their own beliefs, religions, and views on life. This created a colossal clash of cultures. For this very reason, people of similar beliefs settled in the same area. The one issue that has caused

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Wendy
  • 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 12, 2009 By: Vika
  • Causes of the American Civil War

    Causes of the American Civil War

    Causes Of The American Civil War Incomplete Essay Four years of American bloodshed on American soil. Why? The reasons are varied. From the formation of America to 1860, the people in this country were divided. This division was a result of location and personal sentiments. Peace could not continue in a country filled with quarrels that affected the common American. There is a common misconception that the American Civil War was fought only over slavery,

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    Essay Length: 1,552 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Causes of the Civil War

    Causes of the Civil War

    The South, which was known as the Confederate States of America, seceded from the North, which was also known as the Union, for many different reasons. The reason they wanted to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to

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    Essay Length: 1,986 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Civil War

    The Civil War

    Background The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 was a Federal law which was written with the intention of enforcing a section of the United States Constitution that required the return of runaway slaves. It sought to force the authorities in free states to return fugitive slaves to their masters. In practice, however, the law was rarely enforced because the northern states were against slavery. The act protected property rights of white slave-owners while violating the

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Vika
  • Civil War Questions

    Civil War Questions

    Q1. Societies strict rules about who is allowed to move up in the ranks of the army seriously impaired their being many qualified leaders. The nobles that were leading the army were not always the most qualified for the job. They did not base moving up in the ranks by skill or intelligence, which probably caused a lot of armies to miss out on some great leaders. One example of a leader who could have

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    civil war on sdfshjAlthough the American Civil War mainly occurred because of slavery, the fact is that slavery had a lot to do with economic and social issues. By the year of 1860, the North and the South was developed into extremely different sections. There was opposing social, economic, and political points of view, starting back into colonial periods, and it slowly drove the two regions farther in separate directions. The two sections tried to

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    Essay Length: 305 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: regina
  • Casue of the Civil War

    Casue of the Civil War

    In 1850, a document called the Fugitive Slave Act was passed. Primarily, this document dealt with the reclaiming of runaway slaves. This law allowed southerners to call upon the federal government to capture runaway slaves who had fled the South and may be living in the North. The Fugitive Slave Act and the laws that went with it only caused controversy in the North. This split the North and South. In reaction to this, some

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Robert E.Lee’s a Civil War

    Robert E.Lee’s a Civil War

    Robert E. Lee's Civil War Bevin Alexander Alexander, Bevin. Robert E. Lee's Civil War. Holbrook, MA: Adams Media Corporation, 1998. 1-338. Bevin Alexander is a renowned author of books on American military history. He is most well known for his books on the Civil War, including How Hitler Could Have Won World War II and Lost Victories. He lives in Bremo Bluff, Virginia, and he is still a contributor to the Civil War book collections.

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Top
  • The Effects on Civil War

    The Effects on Civil War

    The Civil War had an effect on us. The Civil War was one of the most tragic wars in American history. More Americans died in this war then in all other wars combined. In this war we did not fight against other people, we fought brother against brother and the nation was torn apart. There are many reasons why this war took pace. Fist the nation was come together and then the southern states were

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    Essay Length: 304 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Daily Life in a Civil War Camp

    The Daily Life in a Civil War Camp

    Officers in the field lived much better than enlisted men. They generally assigned one or two officers to a tent. Since they provided their own personal gear, items varied greatly and reflected individual taste. Each junior officer was allowed one trunk of personal belongings that was carried in one of the baggage wagons. Higher-ranking officers were allowed more baggage. Unlike infantrymen, who slept and sat on whatever nature provided, officers sometimes had the luxury

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Algerian Civil War 1992-2002

    The Algerian Civil War 1992-2002

    Chris Thorman POLA 293-04 Research Paper April 7, 2003 "Thus, what motivates men to slay the enemy is anger," Sun Tzu says in The Art of War. The conflict between Algerian Islamic fundamentalists and the Algerian military backed government is rooted in anger. The conflict, which began as skirmishes between government forces and Islamic fundamentalists, has taken on the proportions of a civil war as fundamentalists carried out kidnappings, assassinations and other forms of civil

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Monika
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    Harry has finally come of age, and finally started on his final journey to defeat Voldemort for good. The Dursely’s are forced to go into hiding so that Voldemort’s Death Eaters will not torture them for information, and Harry sets off with Ron and Hermione on a difficult quest to find and destroy the last of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Only once those have been destroyed, Harry knows, can Voldemort truly be killed. It’s not easy. Harry

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Artur
  • English Civil War

    English Civil War

    English Revolution The history of the English Revolution from 1649 to 1660 can be briefly told. Cromwell's shooting of the Levellers at Burford made a restoration of monarchy and lords ultimately inevitable, for the breach of big bourgeoisie and gentry with the popular forces meant that their government could only be maintained either by an army (which in the long ran proved crushingly expensive as well as difficult to control) or by a compromise with

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    Essay Length: 411 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Pittsburgh and the Civil War

    Pittsburgh and the Civil War

    Of course it is widely known that the Civil War touched almost every part of the south and also we all know about the major battle of Gettysburg two hundred miles away from our fair city. But when people think of and study the Civil War Pittsburgh is not brought up all that often except for the mention of the men that Pittsburgh sent to the war. If one does a little bit of research

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    Essay Length: 2,089 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Andrew

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