(T501) Slavery was the main issue for why the war started. Lincoln acknowledged this fact only towards the end of the war. But the question is if slavery really ended when the war ended? ... (L) The war had almost all kinds of races participating in it. ... Though life will be hard during the reconstruction era, but at the end, African Americans would come out independent and stable. ...

• Word Count: 842
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The book "Spartacus and the Slave Wars" is a brief history with many documents from various sources. ... Although slavery existed on vast scale in those times, "Spartacus and the Slave Wars" based on historical documents differed from one based on popular modern day fictional accounts. ... The modern-day theory about slaves is very different than the ones that existed in the Roman Era. ... Although there were slaves that became rebellious in the Roman Era, but generally, slavery was a form of life for many "inferior" people. ... Although the film was a fair representation of the story of Spart...

• Word Count: 869
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Analysis of the novel reveals that being white was the safest position to be in during the pre-Civil War Era. ... During the pre Civil-War era, whites were able to control blacks by keeping them uneducated and ignorant. ... Butler does an excellent job of recreating the life of slavery in the pre-Civil War era. ...

• Word Count: 1157
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Analysis of the novel reveals that being white was the safest position to be in during the pre-Civil War Era. ... During the pre Civil-War era, whites were able to control blacks by keeping them uneducated and ignorant. ... Butler does an excellent job of recreating the life of slavery in the pre-Civil War era. ...

• Word Count: 1258
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout O'Connor's work she explains and shows you as the reader what it was like to live in the post World War II South. ... During the era of slavery, most African Americans resided in the South, mainly in rural areas" (Segregation, Freedom's Story, TeacherServe). ... There were a lot of movements going on post World War II like the Civil Rights Act from 1946-1953. According to The Civil Rights Postwar Era "WWII had brought about irrevocable change.  ... The share of defense jobs held by blacks had increased from 3 to 8 percent" (Civil Rights Post World War ...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The point of these documents was to give a new reason for the war between the divided country and to place the north in better social light. ... They thought the nature of the war for the North would now emphasize their rights with a president on their side who was making it so. ... All throughout the 21st century, blacks were still being discriminated and treated hardly any better than their ancestors from the Civil War era. ... Especially, since Lincoln only drafted the document to help the Union states succeed in the war. ...

• Word Count: 761
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The period that occurs after the Civil War is known as the Reconstruction. ... Within the context of the South, beaten in war, where murder, disorganization and military rule is the new order, violence becomes the only answer. ... "The Colfax Massacre was the worst massacre of racial carnage in the Reconstruction era. ... The Freedman's Bureau was an agency of the Federal government set up in 1865 to help former slaves and other persons suffering from the effects of the Civil War. ...

• Word Count: 1876
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

These excerpts of his biographical speeches are amazingly telling of the life of an American slave during the years leading up to the civil war. ... It made me wonder what side of the fence I would find myself if I were raised in that era of time. ...

• Word Count: 631
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

All over the world the modern era is being born that leads to the industrial revolution. ... But as he prepares to take office the President election is still determined to avoid a civil War. ... But, this victory that Lincoln had makes war inevitable. ... He did want ever he could to avoid war, except to allow slavery to expand. ... Unfortunately, five weeks after Lincoln took office the first shots were fired between the states that sparked a brutal and bloody Civil War which was the deadliest war in American History....

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

These differences would culminate during the 1850s and would eventually ignite a divided Congress and country to fight a war it had already won- the war for freedom. ... The dividing of people on the issue of slavery turned into the sectionalism that fueled the Civil War. ... The differences between the regions were small and insignificant during the colonial era. These differences were set aside to fight a war for their freedom. The Revolutionary War united the North and South into one for a brief time. ...

• Word Count: 1167
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Historically, reparations have been payments that victorious nations demanded from defeated nations after a war. ... After World War II ended in 1945, for example West Germany paid over $800 million to Jews and the state of Israel to make up for Nazi persecution and murder in the holocaust. ... "Similar ones were filed on behalf of the Japanese-Americans interned during World War II and Jewish victims of the Holocaust." ... The argument is: In 1988, the U.S. issued an apology and paid $20,000 to each Japanese-American who was taken from his/her home and held in internment camps during World Wa...

• Word Count: 1296
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Making Race and Nation In the book Making Race and Nation by Anthony Marx, he compares the development of three different countries which were major active members in the slave trade late into there development and into the modern era.. ... There was no civil war or Boer war. These wars had already taken place and there was no reason for Brazil to repeat the mistakes of histories past. ... The English employed many natives to fight in the war. ...

• Word Count: 2418
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Slavery was a major issue in the United States during the pre civil war and civil war eras. In the southern states, their economic stability revolved around cash crops. Some cash crops include tobacco, rice, and cotton. Slaves were used for hard labor out in the fields of farms and plantations to ke...

• Word Count: 1021
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Previous to the civil war rose two characters, two heroes, in Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. ... Social democracy and republicanism dominated the era thanks to Jefferson's ignition by his anti-British philosophies. ... But it was also realized that they best helped our nation in the era helping establish morality in our youth. ... Jackson, like Jefferson, came into the spotlight during a time of war. The public enlightened Jefferson during the revolution and Jackson during the war of 1812. ...

• Word Count: 2477
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

"Twelve Years a Slave: A Narrative of Solomon Northup," was written by Solomon Northup and spans from 1841 to 1853. He was thirty-three years old the year he was kidnapped and was enslaved for twelve years. Northup found freedom and happiness with his family after suffering as a slave during the pre...

• Word Count: 900
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the islands of Madeira and Sao Tome, located off the coast of West Africa and in the Gulf of Guinea, became leading territories of the production of sugar internationally used, thus dominating in this era of trade. ...

• Word Count: 2584
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The authors believe that historians and abolitionists before World War II were racist who believed African Americans were inferior to whites. ... The book explains that, "During the last three decades of the antebellum era, slaves were involved in virtually every aspect of southern economic life, both rural and urban." ... But by 1820, the percentage was about a third and on the eve of the Civil War, the percentage was just over 15%. ... Others like Phillips claimed that if the Civil War had never occurred, slavery would have crushed itself under it own weight. ... This continued to happen...

• Word Count: 3223
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

On the eve of the Civil War, the ration was one in four; and slave owners probably made up less than a third of southern whites. ... During the Revolutionary era, more than half of all African-Americans lived in Virginia and Maryland. ...

• Word Count: 2041
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Slavery alone could have even triggered several battles among the tribes; this occurrence was seen in the Civil War many centuries following the Anglo-Saxon reign. ... Someone could have been born and raised in slavery, brought into slavery through war, or placed into temporary slavery if one cannot pay a fine (Ross 2). ...

• Word Count: 2726
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

One of my favorite childhood memories was going to the carnival with my grandma whenever it was in town. My grandma and I would spend a whole Saturday riding all of the rides and eating as much junk food as our stomachs would allow. Then one year we came across a booth where an artist was drawing ...

• Word Count: 2170
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

After brief service in the Civil War he started writing as a journalist and later as an author. ... However, the setting of the novel was in 1830, a period called "Ante Bellum-, which was the time before Civil War and the time of slavery. ... I can imagine him remembering the circumstances of this era very well. ...

• Word Count: 3258
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School