Looking back into history, we will be able to find some comparisons and contrasts to the characteristics of the upper class today and in the days of General Robert E. ... The upper class in the United States can best be characterized as highly educated, marriage and or family oriented and predominately white. ... Things have changed in the United States drastically since the days of Lee but the more things change the more they stay the same. ... Financially speaking, the modern day upper class of the Untied States is a combination of both extensive property owners as well as business and finan...

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On the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg occurred the most important event in the unification of the United States. ... General Robert E. ... The scarcity of resources was greatest in the one or two states nearest its largest armies and "under the wasting consumption of war, " the production of raw material was diminished further. ... While General Robert E. ...

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The Civil war rages, the War between the States has become known as the bloodiest war ever fought. The Civil War divided the United States between its Northern and Southern states. ... Sumter by the Southern states and lasted until General Robert E Lee surrendered his southern troops at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865. ... The Southern states wanted their independence respected by the national government. ... The Southern states believed that the right to succeed from the Union was within the doctrine of states' rights. ...

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With these taxes came a wide range of economic unrest and turmoil in the states. ... Robert Hayne of South Carolina defended the Carolina Doctrine by declaring that the states created the union; and, in order to maintain sovereignty, the states must be free to judge the laws which the federal government adopts. In doing so, the states must be allowed to determine individually if a law is unconstitutional. ... The United States Constitution states that Congress, by law, can regulate commerce with both foreign powers and within the states. ... The Nullification Theory is an attack on the Unite...

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Slavery was the most important topic that Lincoln focused on when he took office, while the southern states leaders demanded rapidly to keep slavery lawful all over the country and they threatened to pull their states out of the union if that the president and the congress didn't agree, which made Lincoln face the crisis and the conspiracy of the southern states. In February the people of the south had themselves a meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, they declared a new constitution, set up a government and elected Jefferson Davis as president for the southern states and they called it the c...

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"Without Lincoln's election in 1860, the Southern states would not have seceded in 1861, the war would not have come when and as it did, the door of emancipation would not have been open as it was." ... was the most persuasive and the more rational explanation for his conclusions that it was the driving force of Abraham Lincoln himself that eventually brought an end not only to slavery in the South but to the end of Slavery as an institution in the United States. While he carefully analyzes the arguments in favor of the so-called "self-emancipation" thesis which has become popular in m...

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The Missouri discussions held 1819-1821 functioned as an important turn in the United States' major disagreement over slavery. ... Slavery itself noticeably stretched its finger into the Mid-Atlantic's free states in the post-war ages. As request for slave work in the growing Southern estate increased, the auction of term slaves - slaves pending their liberty under the necessities of Northern states' steady emancipation laws - from states like New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to the profound South illustrated the fuming consideration of both legislators and inhabitants. .....

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Charles Dew's ancestors fought for the Confederacy, and growing up, he was taught the only reason the South had seceded was for states' rights. ... According to Dew, "the past is far from dead in the Southern reaches of the United States (7). "Virginia's Richmond City Council voted in favor of a mural of Robert E. ... Dew states, the only way to find clear evidence of the role slavery played in secession is to study the speeches and letters of the men who served as commissioners of the lower South. ... Before the states had actually seceded, the Mississippi legislature and South...

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By the mid 1890s the United States was the world's number one industrial powerhouse (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p.21). It was necessary for the North to parent southern states after the war, because the South was left very unstable and the exploitation of free-slave labor was no longer an applicable tool for the South. This disabled the South to be self-sufficient, putting them economically at the mercy of increasing industrial northern states. ... The Republican Party in 1854 was made directly as a result of the southern power wanting all states to become slave states. ...

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The movie also gives honorable mention to other vital military leaders at the time, including Robert E. ... Overall, when assessing a movie of such magnitude and with as much depth as Gods and Generals has, one has to take several things into consideration when comparing it to the reality of the History of the United States and the Civil War. ... (Gods and Generals) With all of this in mind, the film ties in well with American History I with specific reference to the Confederacies' Battles of Manassas, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and most importantly, Thomas "Stonewall" Ja...

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Abraham Lincoln is a perfect example of leadership and legacy with his greatly successful job of ruling the United States of America and without him slavery may still be around today in some parts of the United States and the Confederacy likely a separate country, broken away from the US. ... Shortly before his inauguration seven states broke away from the Union forming the Confederacy. As the states started breaking away President Lincoln said nothing about it in his speeches remaining quiet about the crisis occurring. ... This prompted Lincoln to take measures that no United States Presid...

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It becomes easier to understand why many felt that slavery should remain in tact through Robert Higgs quote of Senator Stephen Douglas saying "There is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. ... The southern states were so reluctant to admit that African-Americans were people that they allowed the 3/5ths compromise to occur. During the argument over electoral votes, southern states were quick to try to include their slaves in an effort for more power. ... In the f...

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By the spring of 1864, Atlanta, Georgia existed as the last connection between the western and eastern halves of the Confederate States of America. ... Southern troops, citizens, and government leaders understood that success or failure in Atlanta decided the outcome of the 1864 United States election. ... The southern public supported their president's change to an offensive strategy because it imitated that of General Robert E. ...

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