This is one that pisses me off the most.
I love blowing peoples minds when they say the civil war was about slavery and racism.
The 1st documented slave in the new world was owned by a black man.
There WERE white slaves. Granted they had some black in them, but there were people that were indistiguishly white that were slaves. They had blue eyes, pale skin and curly red hair.
Your "original teachings" are quite over-simplified, if not flat out wrong.
EDIT: That's not to say the things you say are being taught now are any more accurate.
Guys I hate to blow your minds, but the Civil War WAS about slavery, and chattel slavery in the United States was overwhelmingly whites owning blacks. While the cultures of both the north and the south were extremely racist at the time, the south had institutionalized it to a far greater degree.
There were lots of causes for the Civil War, but a whole ton of them can be directly traced back to the institution of slavery, and it contributed more to the war than any other factor.
I think the biggest travesty is the cost of the textbooks. Why not just use e-books? It is not uncommon for a textbook to cost over $100.00. This is the information age and we are making student tote around 80lbs of textbooks. How rediculous can we get?
The subject of slavery boils down to a system of economics built on slavery. Since the time of the pilgrims, many white people paid for their travel to the new world by signing up to be an endentured servant for a set number of years. Slavery is the abuse of power and the absence of humanity for our fellow man. Regardless the South decided they wanted to leave the union and the north did not allow it to happen. Everything boils down to power and money in the end.
You might try reading Abraham Lincoln's speech after the end of the War.
You might try reading Abraham Lincoln's speech after the end of the War.
hmm looks like just a regular generalization of the slavery issue down to money and power/states rights issue.
MovingTarget
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Slavery was a part of the cause of the Civil War, but to say the war was about slavery is flat out wrong. States rights' played a huge role, too, but one must consider the distribution of political power and the competing interests of an agrarian vs. industrial economy. Slavery could be considered a symptom of this. The Civil War could've still happened even if the South and North had no qualms about the slavery issue. Abolition was more a symptom of the war, not a justification of it.
The funniest part is now that the South is part of the union (again), one can go and ask any young and educated Southern child who won the war. The answer is quite amusing: we did (as in the union).
JSt0rm
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Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
4. sound does travel better through solids and liquids - just compare the velocity of sound in different materials. air - 343 m/s @ 20C; steel - 5930m/s longitudinally; water - ~1500m/s (courtesy of wikipedia). now if you mean in terms of signal strength (dB), then i dunno what to tell you there
This is true.
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/626
NikolaeVarius
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Nope. Lincoln himself said he had no intention doing anything about slavery. To him it was a war to preserve the Union and to the South it was a war of independence from the north.
What Lincoln said was that his primary goal was to preserve the Union, and that the subject of slavery was immaterial to that. (his famous quote on "if I could preserve the union by....")
The South seceded primarily due to the slavery issue. Therefore more than anything else, the Civil War was about slavery. This element of history really isn't in dispute? That is unless you are trying to say that another President other than Lincoln wouldn't have attempted to prevent the states from leaving. In that case, Abraham Lincoln is 100% the cause. I'm not sure why you would do this though.
...what? 0_o
Electricity need not have anything to do with flow. And it is definately a form of energy - called 'electrical energy'. Note the Cambridge dictionary definition:
"a form of energy that provides power to motors and devices that create light or heat"
I believe it is 'charge' which flows, although it can also be static - the definition of the word 'electricity' can be found above. Current is defined as the rate of flow of charge.
I=dQ/dt
Yea so is this:
Do you know what are in your kids textbooks ?
Do you know what is in your kids' textbooks?
Maybe wanna get that grammar textbook out and see if you can find some errors in that eh?
oh boy.........
How about you stop assessing your children's text books and re-assess yours if that is what you learned.
The particles that transmit sound in solids are infact the solid, these solid particles are more densely packed than air hence the faster transmission of sound. If you analyze dynamic responses of say a steel structure the transmission of stress occurs at the speed of sound in a solid, additionally for events like waterhammer in water the transmission of the pressure wave is at the speed of sound in liquid.
Engineer
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Jobs are leaving because it's cheaper to make the stuff in other countries and ship it here...plain and simple. Paying a Chinese $0.08 per hour vs $15 per hour (including benefits in this country) is why (actual example of my company). Of course, we could graduate a few million engineers and make the supply so high, the costs come down and then compete on sheer pricing power alone.
The history of Lincoln and slavery is more complicated.
Lincoln seems to have had some more compunctions against slavery, but they fit into other views. His actual plan to abolish slavery was to phase it out by the end of the century (over 40 years), with slave owners compensated for the freed slaves. He also supported a plan to ship all blacks back to Africa.
The emancipation proclomation not only freed slaves only in the Southern states, as most now know - it freed states only in states in insurrection, as an added incentive for states to leave the confederacy and return to the union, and in part to not push slave states not in the confederacy to rebel. But it built publi csentiment for ending slavery and the thirteenth to fifteenth amendments were passed (the fourteenth being the one that was disastrously hijacked from being for black rights, to creating 'corporate personhood'.)
Lincoln was not above campaigning to a racist crowd by saying no man was more opposed than he to the idea of social equality for blacks.
But he did appear to have a moral position that slavery should be ended.
Racist humor, good going. Ha ha, Mexicans are poorer on average and more often have a lot of people in a car compared to whites. Ha, ha, hilarious.
If you won't pass out from laughing, very poor Mexicans sometimes even sleep one or more big families in one apartment, for survival. Ha ha!
He probably meant waves require a medium to travel through... a medium is usually something physical.. something of size.
waggy
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so it was not about states rights? and it was about slavery? yeah..sure i will take your word on that. not what lincoln himself had said and wrote.
the civil war started becuase of state rights and economics. slavery was very small part. NOT the whole issue as many are saying it is today
at the end of the war it did play a part. Lincoln wanted to free the slaves more as a way to punish the south then to really free the slaves.
it was part of the souths fight was to keep the slaves. But it was mainly to leave the union.
Take a chill pill and meet some Mexicans. It's true; travel in Mexico and you'll see whole crews in the back of pickups. There's nothing wrong with that and it is kind of funny to see. Mexican's don't deny it and can laugh at it too so what's the harm?
The south's economy was based around slavery. Slavery was by FAR the single most important cause of the Civil War. You want to know what the easiest way to see what the cause was? Look at the last ditch attempts to prevent the Civil War. Every single one of them revolved around slavery related issues.
I'm sorry, but the significant majority of modern historians disagree with you, slavery was the single largest cause for the civil war.
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And you would be wrong.
From Maxwell, book on electricity and magnetism.
See above. Electricity is charge.
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Yea so is this:
Do you know what are in your kids textbooks ?
Do you know what is in your kids' textbooks?
Maybe wanna get that grammar textbook out and see if you can find some errors in that eh?
Maybe you need to start using a spell checker
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