Quote Originally Posted by Bob the Awesome
The way I understand it, the Civil War was fought over a number of different things, slavery being one of the major reasons. But Lincoln didn't really care about freeing the current slaves at first, he was a Free Soiler, the group which merely opposed the expansion of slavery. After the war began anti-slavery groups began working to make abolition a war goal.

It's funny, you all say you learned in grade school that the war was fought over Slavery as an example of bias, at my grade school we learned that slavery wasn't a factor at all... I'm dead serious.

And Rebgirl, I know all Republicans aren't like this, I didn't mean to imbue an anti-Republican tone into this thread. My former Congressman gone Bush's Cabinet - Rob Portman - was awesome. However, I'd be careful, the RNC is becoming steadily more evangelical and polarized, and they would NOT take kindly to your pot smoking '>>
Yeah there were many reasons, but slavery WAS the main reason. I learned the same thing as you in grade school. Not until I went to college for my bachelor's degree did I understand how it really went down. Lincoln gets way too much credit for his opposition to slavery... he wasn't the same kind of activist as others of the time like William Lloyd Garrison. He was the one that said regarding Lincoln that he "had not a drop of anti-slavery blood in his veins."
PatrickHenry Reviewed by PatrickHenry on . I know how many people like Wikipedia on here... Main Page - Conservapedia So apparently some people (or just one person) finds Wikipedia to be too biased because they use "CE" and "colour"... so now they're trying to make an offshoot. Does this piss anyone else off? I'm so sick of this fake culture war permeating every part of everything. I'm thinking about going on and writing an article on pot, complete with cited sources and everything, to see what happens. Rating: 5