Wednesday, March 17, 2010

What if the Civil War did not happen?

What if the civil war didn't happen? What if we still had slaves? This puts a different toll on everyone's life. In the south mainly, the confederacy would still exist. The south would not be part of the United States of America. Instead we would be called the Confederate States of America. Things would run the way they should have kept running until the Civil War happened. Slaves and plantations would still be the main focus of the South. I think that the South would be a lot different, and we could go back to being the "True South." Where dirt roads, farms, animals, tractors, and big trucks ruled. Life was as simple as piece of pie. Also, taxes would be a lot different. Since the Civil War was mainly over taxes and slavery was a side note, we would be affected differently with our money. Maybe, our country would not be in so much debt. Maybe people with rude attitudes would not be walking around thinking that the world owes them something. Maybe our social class system that we have would be structured differently. We would have two totally different sets of our class system; we would have the white class system and the colored class system. We would have separated schools. Along with schools being separated the bathrooms and public places would also be separated. All public offices would be completely segregated. Diversity would not exist in the South. However, I do believe the equal but separate clause would still be in effect. Though the South did not completely obey the equal but separate clause, I still believe that some kind of clause would exist in today's "Confederate States of America." If the Confederacy wanted cooperation from all races, something still would have had to change. However and ultimately, President Barack Obama would not be president, at least in the Confederate States of America.

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