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    Civil War Fashion

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    What did the women wear during the Civil War Era? The women wore at least seven layers under their dresses everyday. The first layer would be their bloomers/plantlets‚ which were made of cotton and would come below the knee or to the ankle‚ depending on which they were wearing. Usually‚ a young lady would wear those that would go to the knee‚ the more mature and older women would wear them longer‚ to the ankles. The second layer was the Chemise. It wasn’t made of more than a cotton nightgown that

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    Civil War Causes

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    Causes of the Civil War John Brown’s Raid vs. Industrial Revolution John Brown’s Raid was a more influential cause to the civil war than the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution caused incompability between the North and the South. The North relied on wage laborers with the new machine age economy while the South relied heavily on slaves. So‚ the North did not need slaves for their economy and fought to free the slaves. The South fought

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    Often‚ the first thoughts of the Civil War are about the gruesome battles between the union and the confederacy‚ but perhaps the worst part of the Civil War is not even recognized. When the war began in 1861‚ the confederate and union states began taking in prisoners. These prisoners of war were treated very poorly‚ and some prisons saw a death rate of twenty-five to twenty-nine percent (Hall). Prison camps were described as having conditions worse than the battlefields. Every day‚ prisoners were

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    A well-dressed gentleman‚ walking in through the main entrance of an old office building‚ slightly confused‚ fear evident on his face and thoughts burdening his mind: “I have been jobless for two years now. He will only give me the job if I get money for him. This is the only way out of beggary.” He takes out a pistol from his pocket and robs a man with a briefcase full of money at gun-point. Running away with it‚ he feels guilty but does not turn back due to the fear of power of his new boss at

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    Be a Captain

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    I think I would be a good sports captain because I will do my best by encouraging you‚ motivating you‚ supporting you and most of all‚ being a good sport. encourage others to participate in sport Criteria: SCHOOL VALUES FOR HOUSE CAPTAINS The elected house captain should (already) and will: HONESTY: § Tell the truth. § Not give into peer pressure when loaning equipment‚ and will not favour their friends over others. § Report people misusing equipment or being unfair in sport. KINDNESS

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    Civil War Essay

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    because He gives a more detail discussion on the black experience during the reconstruction and on antebellum American slavery prior to the Civil War. McPherson’s writing is more up to date (2001) than Elkins. Elkins seem to rely solely on critical commentary from other authors when discussing slavery. His basis is on the growing interest in black culture‚ which had some significant contribution to work published on slavery in the 1970s. Elkin’s was not as up to date as McPherson with his latest

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    Civil War Causes

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    What Caused The Civil War? You hear the word civil in such terms as civil rights‚ civilian‚ civilization and civil liberty. All are related to the concept of a common citizen and a member of society. So‚ a civil war is a war between citizens representing different groups or sections of the same country. That is how the Civil War in the United States between 1850-1860 started. The distinction of ideas about slavery between the South and the North

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    DBQ Civil War

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    Although events leading up to the Civil War had been going on for some years‚ the Civil War was not inevitable; the war was the result of extremism and failures in leadership of both the North and the South. A widespread of political‚ social‚ and economic factors was all contributors to the splitting of the North and South. State rights‚ controversy over slavery‚ and differences in economic systems pushed the North and South into a bloody battle. The Civil War started due to the differences between

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    At the close of the American Civil War in 1865‚ the United States’ government was faced with the tremendously difficult problem of re-integrating the Confederate States into the Union. Between 1865 and 1877 this problem was addressed by various forms of "Reconstruction‚" programs whose goals also included the rebuilding of the ravaged Southern economy‚ and the integration of freed slaves and other African Americans into citizenship and culture at large. Complicated by an incompetent president‚ corruption

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    Civil War Myths

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    There has always been a number of circulating myths about the American Civil War. We need to dig deep and find out if these myths are true. Did the South HATE black people? Did Robert E. Lee hate America? Was the civil war all about slavery? Did the South start the civil war? All of these myths are to be revealed. Supposedly the Southern people were the only Americans that enslaved black people. They tortured‚ beat‚ and starved them. According to research‚ a slave in today’s modern world‚ would

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