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2008-10-16 U.S. History help: Dean, I don't have any idea what the first question is getting at either. I suppose they're fishing for D (based on elimination of the other choices), but I think that is a real stretch. As for...
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2008-09-29 Thomas Jefferson on Slavery: Chelsea, There is an important reason other than social or economic influences for the way Jefferson acted -- personally, he shied away from direct, face-to-face confrontation. While he could be pretty...
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2008-09-26 American history: Kayla, The women's rights movement grew partially out of the abolitionist movement before the Civil War. In fact, the group of women's reformers who met at Seneca Falls in 1848 were a part of the American...
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2008-09-24 Thomas Jefferson on Slavery: Chelsea, I'm not sure that Thomas Jefferson ever changed his mind -- he was always very conflicted about slavery. I think that he found slavery in itself very distasteful, and at points in his career...
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2008-09-22 civil war question: Stephanie, It is true that the North had significant material advantages over the South -- more money, more population, more manufacturing, more miles of railroads and roads. On the other hand, the...
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