Question About Slavery and the Civil War?
To Knowledge: The Civil War was clearly about slavery. The South secceeded from the Union because the north tried to say that no new states can have slaves and that slavery was bad. The South finally got fed up with the North's meddling in its affairs. Abolitionists like John Brown became terrorists and attacked trains with Southerners on them in Harper's Ferry. As far as what incentive did a Southern soldier have, well, for one, he didn't want free blacks to compete with him for jobs. That is the most basic incentive anyone could have. When is the last time anyone who replied to my question quit his/her job to graciously give it someone else more needy? None of your arguments make any sense. I still don't know what a northern white guy's incentive was during the Civil War.
If neither side gives in, how will the Government shut down end?
Oh boy…So first bit. A lot of people are concerned about Trump calling an emergency and just taking the money. This would immediately be challenged in court, which would mean that we’d be right back to square one. Trump believes the wall is existential to his re-election. If he doesn’t get Fox News to say he has built a wall, he’ll be a failure. So this might happen, but it won’t bring an end to the shutdown.Second bit. Democrats can’t bend because it will just create an incentive for Trump to do this again in October. The government cannot be used as a bargaining chip. If Trump can’t convince Congress to fund a wall, then it doesn’t get funded. Suck it up, buttercup. Still, Democrats might hold out until the State of the Union, and then acquiesce to something for the good of the country. I don’t see Democrats letting this stretch into February.Third bit. Republicans keep passing the buck to Trump, but there’s an even bigger snake in the grass: Mitch McConnell. See, he could call for a vote on legislation to end the standoff, but says he won’t because Trump has to sign it. But this is false. Trump does not have to sign it. if 2/3rds of senators overrule him, the bill becomes law, regardless of whatever Trump wants. The last funding proposal passed with 98 of senators voting in approval, more than enough to overcome a veto. All Mitch has to do is call it.Fourth bit. So here’s the real FUN possibility. Say there is a senator that gets 51 senators to agree that they’re senate majority leader. Well, guess what. He’s majority leader. He can call a vote. Of course Republicans will NEVER go for Schumer, but what if senate dems were able to convince enough Republicans and Democrats to support, say, Senator Romney? Well now Senate Majority leader Romney can call for a vote on the legislation, overcome the block, and be the man who reopened America.And the fun bit is that this doesn’t violate the constitution. It breaks the senate rules, sure, but the government is already broken. So if a coalition of senators form a majority, or better yet, a 2/3rds majority, then it would essentially act as a quorum and push out Mitch. Once Romney is majority leader AND the government is reopened, I suspect that they’re fall back in their traditional camps, but I suspect that Romney will be able to hold on. And since Romney is one of the few senators from a state that virtually guarentees his election, he has little to fear from Trump’s supporters.
What was an incident from Martin Van Buren's term where he made an important decision?
Van Buren oversaw the Cherokee expulsion. He sided with the Spanish in the Armistad case. In 1839, Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement visited Van Buren to plead for the U.S. to help roughly 40,000 Mormon settlers of Independence, Missouri, who had been attacked, killed, raped, and run out of the state from their lands The Governor of Missouri, Lilburn Boggs, had issued an "Extermination Order". It authorized Missourians to "exterminate" Mormons and encouraged them to do so. Smith and his party begged Van Buren to intercede for the Mormons. He reportedly told Smith, "Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you. If I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri. Had he decided differently in any of these cases, he might have made pollitcal enemies, but he would have created a climate of tolerance that would have changed the moral character of the country. Had he done so the riights of minority citizens would have been recognized a hundred years before the civil rights movement. Because his and Jacksons policies lead to moral and financial collapse, Van Buren only served one term in office, any way.
A Question about the Civil War??????
I spent most of my years in Richmond Virginia. Richmond is a GRAND LOVER of confederate icons. We have statues of Robert E. Lee that is displayed promantely on the Blvd. (I won't even get into all of that) HERE IS MY QUESTION: Why do SO MANY AMERICANS idolize the confederacy? I know that many peoples forefathers fought in that war, but mine did as well and I do not idolize them. One very important reason is b/c 75% of my family tree were the African slaves who were crippled & made to live lower than dogs under the cruel system of slavery. (The culture of slavery was the worst form of terrorism that exists) FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS 1. Why wasn't Jeff Davis and the confed. soldiers tried for treason and put to death at the end of the war?\ 2. Why wasn't the reconstruction plan followed thru? The Confed. states were restored to their with loyal gov. but the south found a new way slave Africans thru Jim Crow Laws. 3. What is it about the Confederacy that causes so much idolization?