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Topic: the american civil war
dirtyblonde007 Joined Wed 01/16/08 Posts: 932	Wed 06/04/08 06:51 PM
if you were alive during this time period, what side would you fight for and why?

MYheartACHES4u Joined Tue 05/27/08 Posts: 3076	Wed 06/04/08 06:52 PM
the north.........i believe all men should be treat as equals

dirtyblonde007 Joined Wed 01/16/08 Posts: 932	Wed 06/04/08 06:55 PM
the north.........i believe all men should be treat as equals i agree but most southerners weren't slave owners. they were too poor. the war was also about how the north wanted to run agriculture. (i am playing devil's advocate)

southerntouch Joined Tue 11/06/07 Posts: 214	Wed 06/04/08 06:55 PM
1st u need to know why it was fought and slavery had nothing to do with it.

dirtyblonde007 Joined Wed 01/16/08 Posts: 932	Wed 06/04/08 07:04 PM
1st u need to know why it was fought and slavery had nothing to do with it. the only people who really know what its about are the ones who took ap history. some people just don't know. that is why i offered more information. so anyone else have input?

dicimus01 Joined Thu 01/18/07 Posts: 387	Wed 06/04/08 07:09 PM
if you were alive during this time period, what side would you fight for and why? the South was fighting for States rights to govern themselves

TheLonelyWalker Joined Sat 04/07/07 Posts: 11870	Wed 06/04/08 07:10 PM
if you were alive during this time period, what side would you fight for and why? the north they were not as retarded as the people in the south who supported slavery.

ZacharyRyan Joined Tue 11/20/07 Posts: 3166	Wed 06/04/08 07:11 PM
both sides had fundamental flaws to their policies so I really don't know probably would have moved west

dicimus01 Joined Thu 01/18/07 Posts: 387	Wed 06/04/08 07:13 PM
the north.........i believe all men should be treat as equals Slavery wasn't an issue until abolishinist talked Lincoln into the Emancipation Proclamation In 1962 or '63 and that only freed the southern slaves. The northern slaves weren't freed until 1865 by congress. The 13th Amendment.

Citizen_Joe Joined Sat 04/12/08 Posts: 4036	Wed 06/04/08 07:14 PM
if you were alive during this time period, what side would you fight for and why? Neither side was completely honorable. The factories up north during the industrial revolution needed workers and fighting to end slavery was convienient at the time. I would have sided with the north, but only for the altriustic reasons.

therooster Joined Mon 03/31/08 Posts: 866	Wed 06/04/08 07:15 PM
The Indians,,,,,,

dicimus01 Joined Thu 01/18/07 Posts: 387	Wed 06/04/08 07:16 PM
if you were alive during this time period, what side would you fight for and why? the north they were not as retarded as the people in the south who supported slavery. The people who owned slaves were the same people that stole the plantations from the Cherokee's in 1836.

willy_cents Joined Sat 07/14/07 Posts: 4471	Wed 06/04/08 07:20 PM
I would have fought for the south due to the original cause for the war was states and individuals rights trumping the federal gov't. Slave were freed a couople years after the start of the civil war in the hope that they would rebel against the plantation owners and distract the southern armies from focusing on fighting the northern armies. Slavery actually had nothing to do with the first couple years of the war

Christinacospgs Joined Sun 04/27/08 Posts: 6376	Wed 06/04/08 07:21 PM
I would have fought for the south due to the original cause for the war was states and individuals rights trumping the federal gov't. Slave were freed a couople years after the start of the civil war in the hope that they would rebel against the plantation owners and distract the southern armies from focusing on fighting the northern armies. Slavery actually had nothing to do with the first couple years of the war wow Willy, that was deep I'm impressed

willy_cents Joined Sat 07/14/07 Posts: 4471	Wed 06/04/08 07:24 PM


ZacharyRyan Joined Tue 11/20/07 Posts: 3166	Wed 06/04/08 07:27 PM
the north.........i believe all men should be treat as equals Slavery wasn't an issue until abolishinist talked Lincoln into the Emancipation Proclamation In 1962 or '63 and that only freed the southern slaves. The northern slaves weren't freed until 1865 by congress. The 13th Amendment. the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that the North had no way of freeing, it was a strong statement about the course of events the north would take but in reality it didn't free a single slave

No1sLove Joined Wed 04/16/08 Posts: 10342	Wed 06/04/08 07:27 PM
I would not have been there...my family was not here yet.

wyatt1844 Joined Sat 01/26/08 Posts: 6761	Wed 06/04/08 07:36 PM
My earlier relatives fought and died in the Civil War - on both sides. And if you think it was about slavery, you really need a history lesson. And which side would I fight on... American by birth, southern by the grace of God.