Causing restlessness on both sides. ... The states began to choose sides. ... However, legislation had other ideas; on May 16, 1861 they proclaim neutrality. ... More so than the other Border States the reason for this was more geographical reasons than political reasons. ... Access from the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers helped to determine the geographical divide for the South, as the Ohio River helped to determine the boundary for the north. ...

• Word Count: 2359
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

He lives with his mother a widow, and his sister Betty, his father died, drowned in the Mississippi River. ... The sailors were talking amongst one each other and their names were Claudius and Purvis. ... The only fears the crew had was spotting an enemy ship, the British, Spaniards, and other pirates. ... Rain, thunder, and raging winds rocked the boat from side to side destroying bits and pieces of the ship. ... He saw the African boy who stared at him the other day and went to sit with him, they held each other tight as the waves through them from wall to wall injuring their bodies. ...

• Word Count: 1821
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

In upstate New York, a man made river is cutting through the wilderness. ... On the other hand, it was called Clinton's big ditch, but it will change New York forever. ... If you are a free slave they still can sell you to who ever want to buy you weather they lived up or down the river. ... Brown had his five sons fighting by his side. ... On the other hand, the North was one hundred percent behind Lincoln to get rid of slavery. ...

• Word Count: 1311
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Huck and Jim's journey down the Mississippi River allows the reader to examine the attitudes, actions and beliefs of a southern community during the mid to late nineteenth century. ... Twain's underlying message for humanity is to be brave enough to break from what others assume is correct and just, and make decisions for yourselves and the ability to stand on your own and do something about it. ... Jim allows the readers to see the human side of slaves and acknowledge the love, friendship, and goodness that they are capable of when given the chance. ... Twain uses Jim as a ...

• Word Count: 2378
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the south, two major types of crops, among many others, could be sold for money and that required the help that slavery provided; these were toacco and cotton. ... Conductors would take fugative slaves form plantations traveling single or as part of a group as far as the Ohio river or the Eastern shore of Maryland; they were then met by other agents after crossing (Dumond, 360). ... One other conductor was John P. Parker who was born a slave, bought his freedom around age 19, moved north and married, and then came back to help others escape (Rappaport, 22). ... Brodas" slaves worked with o...

• Word Count: 1997
• Approx Pages: 8

Whitney had one sister and two other brothers, who all lived in one house. ... But instead it would have side effect that no one foresaw that would lead the United States to be torn into two parts. ... But this method would only work if the plantation was by a river or stream. ... The most obvious and important side affect was that slavery would increase and that the end of slavery would be delayed. ... Another side effect that would eventually happen later in history was the Civil War. ...

• Word Count: 1542
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

She became a roving minister, traveling around the Connecticut River valley to preach, sing, pray, and evangelize at camp meetings, in churches, or wherever she could find shelter and an audience. ... (from source#5 of bibliography) If I were to take a side in the argument I would take Sojourner's side. ... I believe Sojourner Truth was an inspiration for other civil/human rights leaders such as Malcolm X and Oprah Winfrey because of her will to stand up for what she believed in and be one of the first African Americans in history to do it. ...

• Word Count: 1430
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The issue of slavery is significant and affected many other aspects of American life, specifically the culture of the South. ... In Northern vessels his products are carried to market, his cotton is ginned with Northern gins, his sugar is crushed and preserved by Northern machinery; his rivers are navigated by Northern steamboats . . . ... It will become all one thing, or all the other." ... The difference between their views was that Seward believed the Union would become all one thing or all the other, but it would come "at the cost of civil war, if necessary....

• Word Count: 2247
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

A number of whites in Connecticut were beginning to accept the possibility that their black countrymen might live in the state as other than an enslaved people. ... Many slaves moved to the city others stayed in the countryside. ... In "River of struggle and resistance " states "Some of these demands came from the new small black elites in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Richmond, Savannah, sometime from the articulate and bold slaves. ...

• Word Count: 1901
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

The African-American and His Majesty's Army in the Age of the American Revolution "And I do hereby further declare all indented servants, Negroes, and others, (appertaining to Rebels), free, that are able and willing to bear arms, they joining His Majesty's Troops, as soon as may be, for the more speedily reducing the Colony to a proper sense of their duty, to His majesty's crown and dignity." ... Success will depend on which side can arm the Negroes faster." ... Virginians seethed with anger when Lord Dunmore issued his infamous invitation on the York River. ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout the years, historians have attempted to convey the way American slaves felt about their experiences, but many accounts contradict each other. ... " (Fogel and Engerman 279) In contrast, other historians refer to slaves as lazy and unwilling to work hard, but Fogel and Engerman believed "...... "When acting as overseers, slaves were responsible not only for the overall direction of the labor force but for various entrepreneurial decisionssuccess or failure of the entire productions side of plantation operations rested on these slaves.... Slaves could have essential rol...

• Word Count: 1868
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate