Originally posted by qtiger
I really don't see the point of quizzing people on the internet. Even if you are a complete idiot you can answer these american history 101 questions with google and webster at your fingertips. You could at least ask a deductive rather than factual question like:
thats funny you say that because you made a mistake on one of your questions. why do you have to set yourself up?
just to let you know, before i give you the answer you missed, i asked these questions to set you up for a fall.
the civil war was not about slavery at all, at all. repeat that-at all! it was about the north becoming upset because the south wanted to seperate from the union. yankees did not want this because they felt it would make them succeptible to british invasion, so they fought the south. even further, the south had the constitutional right to do what they tried, and it was the north that broke constitutional law by going to war with the south.
and to elaborate on your free the slaves bs...lincoln (R) didnt want to free all the slaves after the north had won. he wanted to slowly deport blacks back to africa. but one of his cabinet members told persons that all slaves would be freed. once this found its way to the press, lincoln could do nothing. so what happened to the south after that? it was ruined. yankees promised negroes 40 acres and a mule, but for what? did they know how to run a plantation, or just work it? so what happened mr. he thinks he knows it all? the economy slumped because farming had been crippled. the stupid yankees forced government interaction onto the free enterprise system, essentially throwing a stick in the spokes of capitalism.
im done with this. the only thing you know about history is what your liberal teacher taught you in public school from his agenda.
Secondly, I'm wondering how long it is going to take you to get off of your high horse. You'll notice that people here are making the same complaints that they did in Engine Tech..---wow. would you say something that brazen to my face?