What was the worst time in American history?

What was the worst time in American history?

  • The Revolution

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  • Confederation and Constitution

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  • War of 1812

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  • Westward expansion and Manifest Destiny

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  • Civil War

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  • The Imperialist Era

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  • WWI

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  • The Great Depression

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What generation endured the worst and most challenging conditions, yet prevailed in our republics history?

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Mott the Hoople said:
Cause it never had to happen. It was the most singular avoidable war in our nations history.
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I'm guessing there's a thread or two where you explain your POV. I'd really be interested in reading how you get to that conclusion. Can you send a link or expound a bit?
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Cause it never had to happen. It was the most singular avoidable war in our nations history.
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Really? All the pointless wars we fought, and this was the most avoidable? The south wasn't going to stop enslaving human beings and taking away all of their rights. They deserved to be taught a lesson. The civil war wasn't the worst moment in our history, it was the best.
 
Panda Hugger said:
Really? All the pointless wars we fought, and this was the most avoidable? The south wasn't going to stop enslaving human beings and taking away all of their rights. They deserved to be taught a lesson. The civil war wasn't the worst moment in our history, it was the best.
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That's not correct. Losing over 3% of your population in a completely avoidable war is never a good thing.

The nation decided against permitting the unusual institution of slavery to grow outside of the then existing slave States in the South. This is what angered radical plantation class Southerners. They knew that if isolated to just the current States that they could not compete economically with the northern States, (which, not surprisingly, would have also been true had Slavery been permitted to grow). The South went to war with the north with a raging purple hard on over the principle of permitting slavery to grow outside of the south. At no time during the lead up to the start of the Civil war did the Federal government threaten to take slaves away from their owners in the States where that condition of servitude legally existed. Abraham Lincoln gave his guarantee that he would not attempt to pass laws that affected slavery in the States where it existed. So the South, went to war, where they were outnumbered 4 to 1, with a region that was an order of magnitude more economically developed over the principle of Slavery being permitted in the new territories out west.

That's significant. Not only does it show how numerically impaired these Southern radicals were in the lead up to the Civil War but that the intent of these radicals was not to preserve their "property" where it currently existed. The Southern radicals were so pissed about not being able to perpetuate slavery into the new territories that they started a war, with enthusiastic aggression, they couldn't possibly have won.
 
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brother killing brother.


never again.

No matter how much the right in this country wants one.

never again.


the civil war was the worst time period in this country.


NEVER AGAIN.


This country will not allow the crazy right to cause another one.


No matter how much you try and destroy this country from the inside because you hate Democracy and helping your fellow man
 
Mott the Hoople said:
That's not correct. The nation decided against permitting the unusual institution of slavery to grow outside of the then existing slave States in the South. This is what angered radical plantation class Southerners. They new that if isolated to just the current States that they could not compete economically with the northern States, which would have also been true had Slavery been permitted to grow. The South went to war with the north with a raging purple hard on over the principle of permitting slavery to grow outside of the south. At no time during the lead up to the start of the Civil war did the Federal government threaten to take slaves away from their owners in the States where that condition of servitude legally existed. Abraham Lincoln gave his guarantee that he would not attempt to pass laws that affected slavery in the States where it existed. So the South, went to war, where they were outnumbered 4 to 1, with a region that was an order of magnitude more economically developed over the principle of Slavery being permitted in the new territories out west.

That's significant. Not only does it show how numerically impaired these Southern radicals were in the lead up to the Civil War but that the intent of these radicals was not to preserve their "property" where it currently existed. The Southern radicals were so pissed about not being able to perpetuate slavery into the new territories that they started a war, with enthusiastic aggression, they couldn't possibly have won.
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I agree with the scenario above, I just don't see how the war could have been avoided? Perhaps if it had happened earlier, we'd all have been better off, but avoided?
 
If we had no had so many people willing to gain off the imprisonment of others then we could have avoided it huh
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Cause it never had to happen. It was the most singular avoidable war in our nations history.
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You are right. It never had to happen which is why Lincoln is arguably our worst President ever. The economics of slavery could not last and it would have come to an end eventually. But, Lincoln didn't care about the slaves. He used it as a pretext to go to war with the South.

The sad thing is that blacks don't even appreciate the efforts that whites have made to free them. Now they voluntarily vote away their freedoms to be slaves to the welfare state. GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEE
 
Panda Hugger said:
Really? All the pointless wars we fought, and this was the most avoidable? The south wasn't going to stop enslaving human beings and taking away all of their rights. They deserved to be taught a lesson. The civil war wasn't the worst moment in our history, it was the best.
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Immoral degenerate.
 
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