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FFS, the VP of the Confederacy comes right out and says, in one of his speeches, that the reason they started the war was because the only thing black people were useful for were laboring in the hot sun, and it was the white man’s god given duty to enslave them.
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Y’all wanna hear something crazy? There is a video on Youtube that runs down the cause of the Civil war in like 5min. It covers all the bases, explains the context, IT’S A PRAGER U VIDEO!!!
The evidence is clear and overwhelming. By a large margin, the single most important cause of the Civil War was slavery.
B. Easy money.
Follow up question: Why did those states votes to succeed?
Here’s Mississippi’s answer:
In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
tl;dr: We’re fucked if we can’t run our economy on slavery. And they were right!
Really pushing the definition of ‘word’ here
Word
Florida education system has not been getting gooder in recent history times
Hi, am in Florida in HS. Last year (or the one before I forgor) when we got the new “not woke” math books my teacher found an average of 2 mistakes… PER PAGE…of JUST the homework book, not the actual textbook.
My school social worker thought being “bi” was a gender… she’s been here for (at least) 3 years! Honestly she was so insufferable to talk to I don’t even know if she was faking being so unknowledgeable about LGBT topics. Last year she essentially told me “you have good grades, how are you sad?”PS if anyone has any questions I’m totally down to answer them, assuming they’re not about college algebra (I’m so bad at that class😭)
Education is important, but money is importanter
In an alternate timeline (like these days), the correct answer might be LEARN
Though, all provided answers seem pretty relevant today, not a damn one of them is a single word 😂🤣
You know I went to high school in Florida back in the 80s, and even my old white racist history teacher who insisted it was either the "War of Northern Aggression, or the “War Between the States*” flat out said the south seceded ‘because of slavery.’ She knew it was pointless to claim otherwise. You only need to read each state’s declaration of secession to see it writ in plain English.
*Because thee’s no such thing as a “civil” war, was her excuse.
She didn’t know it was pointless. She didn’t see the point. The point is to create a paranoid and uneducated populace who don’t trust institutions that educate people and help them lead self-fulfilling lives so a certain part of the ruling class can manipulate them into being scared of whatever they need to be to give away their money and blame someone else.
My Florida High School experience was in the 90s, and I had the same thing. I’m slowly realizing as I get older how much I was lied to, either by omission, or just straight up bullshit. My favorite one that was until I watched Hamilton, I believed that the French betrayed us during the Revolutionary War and fought for England. I distinctly remember being taught that Lafayette sank American ships and allowed the British to advance. It’s fucking wild.
One of my other lovely examples of mis-education is dowsing rods. I thought that shit worked. It never came up in my life, but my grandfather told me that he dowsed the land we all lived on to dig the well, and I just bought it. Much, much later I thought about it, and I was like, “Wait, that’s not real, right? What’s the science behind that?” And I looked it up. Bullshit.
My favorite one that was until I watched Hamilton, I believed that the French betrayed us during the Revolutionary War and fought for England. I distinctly remember being taught that Lafayette sank American ships and allowed the British to advance. It’s fucking wild.
What? Even in terms of bullshit falsehoods that get taught in schools, that’s a new one on me. Are you sure you didn’t just… learn it wrong or something?
I mean, Ben Franklin going to France to get support for the revolution was a whole thing, ya know?
I would be interested to find out if your childhood friends remember it the same way or not.
I’m from New England and I learned that we won the Vietnam War 😬
Granted, it was Catholic school, but it has an otherwise pretty good record
I was taught it was about states rights including succession in public school. Was also told that evolution was a theory and that evolution wouldn’t be covered, creationism was mentioned.
Last visit with my father, he was talking about dowsing for his neighbor’s new pond. I grew up thinking it was real as well and was taught how. Forked stick from a green tree.
I don’t think any of those options count as “a vocabulary word”
Slaves. The word your looking for is Slaves.
I’m surprised they didn’t call it the War of Northern Aggression.
Yeah I’m filling in the dot for E on the scantron
