Procrastination Works, I Swear

Given the title of my post, you can tell what I'm doing. YAY for doing things at the last minute!
Case in point: My Civil War paper. I'm having such a hard time collecting my thoughts and getting everything out of my mind in some coherent manner which would help me get an A on this paper so that the final is a low stress environment.

I have about three pages right now, and it needs to be between 4 and 6. Though that sounds good, I have two paragraphs that take up those three pages. I'm supposed to be writing about the Republican vision of free soil, free labor, and free men, and basically what I've got is what the original message meant (end of slavery because it's unadvantageous to whites for whom wages must be doled), and what Lincoln did for that slogan in the Civil War. I still have a TON to do, because I have to talk about what Congress did to provide a legal basis for Reconstruction's efforts to create a system of equality and how they eventually pulled out their support for blacks because of economic changes (Republicans became involved in railroads, the Panic of 1873, etc.) and that people needed a scapegoat, and blamed the nation's troubles on blacks. They then voted Democratic which enabled whites in the South to overthrow the Republican governments in the South, governments which were totally fulfilling those promises. It's just, getting all the ideas, the evidence, the citations, and all is a pain in the ass. The fortuante thing is that I really have nothing to worry about besides this essay between now and Tuesday.

So I'm on here, discussing my bland life. I have no new grades to report, no new aspirations, but rather just the insistence that I need to work.

Well, I think what I'll do is write about the early successes of Reconstruction, take a break, and then talk about how the North bailed.