The Civil War set in stone, the position the United States would take in the world community. ... Southern states held a political view where they felt the state governments should hold more power than the federal government. ... For example, the South had always detested a strong centralized government. ... However, because a majority of Northerners lived in cities manufacturing the hard-produced goods that came from the Southern agriculturalists, many had never set food on farmland. The battles of the Civil War only served to either encourage or discourage either side to continue fighti...

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• Grade Level: High School

Dix served for the duration of the war. ... She also helped set up hospitals all marked with a yellow flag, in churches, hotels schools, and everywhere she could find help. ... Dix then remained in a small apartment set up for her in the hospital for five years. ... She set up the Bureau of Records in Washington and traced perhaps 20,000 names. ... She served elsewhere in France, in Lyons, again instituting her work system. ...

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Like Galations 5:1 states, "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. ... This means that we should stand firm against everything that is wrong, because Jesus has set everyone free from sin just like the Civil War set slaves free from slavery. ... These states joined forces and formed a new government called the Confederate States of America. ... Mark 10:45 says," For even the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and give ransom for many." ... Blacks served in segregated units, and were paid less money a month than the white soldiers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. ... Two opposing governments and settlers" feuds over land claims escalated into violence. ... Brown's actions perpetuated the South's stereotypes of northerners as fanatical abolitionists who were either madmen or served as financers of the madmen. ... Thus, the south in a sense became isolated, set in sharp opposition to the federal government and all of the other regions of the country. ... The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the interests of its people; thus...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. ... Two opposing governments and settlers" feuds over land claims escalated into violence. ... Brown's actions perpetuated the South's stereotypes of northerners as fanatical abolitionists who were either madmen or served as financers of the madmen. ... Thus, the south in a sense became isolated, set in sharp opposition to the federal government and all of the other regions of the country. ... The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the interests of its people; thus...

• Word Count: 1330
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. ... Two opposing governments and settlers" feuds over land claims escalated into violence. ... Brown's actions perpetuated the South's stereotypes of northerners as fanatical abolitionists who were either madmen or served as financers of the madmen. ... Thus, the south in a sense became isolated, set in sharp opposition to the federal government and all of the other regions of the country. ... The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the interests of its people; thus...

• Word Count: 1330
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Two other women who served as nurses during the Civil war were Miss Mary A. ... During this assignment it is generally accepted that she also served as a spy. ... Barton eventually received a Congressional appropriation to run what was known as the Missing Soldiers Office and became the first woman to head a government bureau. ... The Commission set up a training base for the female recruits at David's Island Hospital in New York, and Gibbons was among them. ... When a site opened for the government at Point Lookout MD, a hotel and 100 cottages were refurbished to create an elaborate h...

• Word Count: 1764
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• Grade Level: High School

There has been one document in America's history that has withstood the test of time and continues to "work- and serve its purpose even today in modern times. ... The EP declared all slaves in the ten rebel states free, and indicated that the government will recognize and maintain' their freedom. ... "The British government and the government of the Emperor Louis Napoleon in France had been very sympathetic to the Confederate States of America, as it was in their interests to have a weak USA- (The Thirteenth Amendment 47). ... "Public opinion in Great Britain and France sided with ...

• Word Count: 1677
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

They quickly pulled anchor and set off on their journey (The History Place). ... Around March 1, 1831 the three young men set off to find Offutt. ... He won the campaign, served three months, and met the leadership qualities of the everyday hardships, but he never fought in a battle (Askjeeves.com). ... In 1846 Abe was elected to the lower house of congress, but only served one term. ... Native Mexicans born under the Mexican government inhibited the land. ...

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He needed to annihilation states to set up state governments and rejoin the union rapidly. ... Congress set up the freedmen's Bureau to give backing to poor blacks and whites. ... No colored hairdressers might serve as a stylist to white young ladies or ladies in Georgia. ... Government locale court chose that isolation in state funded training was hurtful to dark youngsters, but since all-dark schools and all-white schools had comparable structures, transportation, curricula, and educators ,the isolation was legitimate. ... The Court recognized that desegregating government funded school...

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When the Civil War began, neither the Union nor the Confederacy was prepared for the level of destruction that warfare would bring. Neither side could have predicted that 600,000 men would die as a result of this conflict. After the first Battle of Bull Run in July 1861, both sides realized that t...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When Dumont demanded that she serve another year after New York declared slavery illegal, Sojourner escaped. ... Sojourner sets a great example for society because she proved that even a person in the lowest part of a caste system can change the course of the future. ... One of her grandsons served in the celebrated black regiment, the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers. After the war Truth worked tirelessly to assist former slaves; in 1870 she sent a petition to Congress, signed by hundreds of supporters, pleading for the allocation of government lands in the West to former slaves. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The "Lost Cause", the tension between federal and local government, the legacy of slavery, and the nature of freedom in America are still intertwined in most people's memory of this war. ... The protestor's sentiments point to the question: whether the reminiscence of this historical event serves as a symbol of Southern Pride, a defense of heritage, or as a statement of defiance against Northern Federal dominance. First and foremost, devotion to heritage serves as one of the major reasons why a reverence for the Confederate South continues to exist. ... A: They were faithful and...

• Word Count: 2116
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• Grade Level: High School