The bloodshed left a heritage of grief and bitterness that declined only slowly and, even today, has not fully disappeared. ... On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. ... Lee, Robert Edward (1807-1870), was a great general who commanded the Confederate Army in the Civil War. ... Lee was willing to leave the Union, just like Washington who had left the British Empire, in order to fight what the South called a second war of independence. ... In October 1871, the great Chicago fire killed about 300 people and left more than 90,000 homeless. ...

• Word Count: 1532
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• Grade Level: High School

The confederate government of the south found it self in a dilemma when they heard the news, either to start the war or allow the rebellion to collapse, they chose to start the war by attacking Fort Sumter on April 12 1861, which left Fort Sumter on a blaze of fire and collapsed. ... General Robert Lee of the confederate army surrendered his army in Virginia on April 9 1856 at Appomattox Courthouse; positively this surrender ended the war witch reunited the north and the south under one nation one more time but different and better than before, this time slavery was demolished by the Great Ema...

• Word Count: 1588
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nowhere in the Constitution does it explicitly allow for the creation of a National Bank, and since this is the case, according to Article X, the decision should be left up to the states. ... In 1807, two men, Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston were given, by the New York state legislature, the ability to operate and license any steamboats in the waters of New York. ...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Grade Level: High School

His parents died before he was 9 and he was left to be brought up by his uncle who was a Quaker Doctor and his aunt in Oregon. He only stayed in High School till he was 14 then he left for work as an office boy. ... Senator Robert and F Wagner formed the Wagner act, which provided proper legal foundation and a bargaining right for their members in any dispute with management. ...

• Word Count: 1563
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Harry Truman is to be admired for many things; for example, when he left the White House, he moved back into the same house he had lived in when he and Bess were first married: "But when Harry Truman left the White House in 1953, he returned to the same rambling, slightly ramshackle, two-and-a-half-story Victorian that he and Bess had lived in since their marriage thirty-four years earlier" (pg 19). ... "In 1948, he summoned his air force aide, General Robert B. ...

• Word Count: 1444
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Roosevelt was Taft's predecessor, who had left the Republican party to form the new progressive party. ... Luis Brandeis began advising Wilson after Robert La Follette lost the nomination to Taft. ...

• Word Count: 1559
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Meaning that if there was a war about to be sparked, the President could request it, but the final judgment call was going to be left for Congress to decide; and because only Congress could pay for military adventures. ... Not only did it ruin his reputation, but it left the people "paying the high price" (pg. 99) which was losing faith in the federal government, but not just in the government but in the president as well. ... Robert Divine states that because of Eisenhower's "strict constructionisn" (pg. 224) it prevented him from making a good judgment call and sendi...

• Word Count: 2201
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Once he left home he was a simple shopkeeper and manual laborer cutting wood until his first political position in 1834 after losing in his 1832 campaign when he was elected to the House of Representative for Illinois as a member of the whig party. ... This left Lincoln an unpopular figure unlike and defied by many including his cabinet many who were rival politicians, congress, and the citizens of the Union. ...

• Word Count: 2022
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate