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To: Partisan Gunslinger
"Was the south taxed or tariffed(sic)?...No they weren't. They opposed the high tariff on foreign goods and got their way to have it lowered in the 1850s."

So, your knowledge ends in the 1850s?

308 posted on 01/22/2014 8:55:08 AM PST by PeaRidge
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To: PeaRidge

“So, your knowledge ends in the 1850s?”

Bwahahaha! Good one!

He asked me why the South didn’t build their own ships. Apparently his history lessons ended in 6th grade. He doesn’t even have a grasp of the reason the South was so upset about the Cotton tariff because he didn’t even know that:

1. All exports had to be on American built ships.

2. The ship building ports and industry were in New England

3. 65% of all the exports in the US at that time were
Southern cotton and it was all sent up to Northern
ports and shipped out of NY because all
the ships were in the North and the North
realized about 40 cents out of every dollar on the
deal.

But the war started over slavery.

These civil war trolls about 3 of them come on every thread. I think they are high school kids or something. Or all three are one as they say the same stuff over and over. Its like its been written out on note cards. :-)


317 posted on 01/22/2014 1:07:20 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: PeaRidge
So, your knowledge ends in the 1850s?

Huh?

319 posted on 01/22/2014 1:10:12 PM PST by Partisan Gunslinger
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