Health Care Reform

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Yea in APus we learned that it was not over slavery but states rights, although I know that most HS will teach that it is about slavery b/c most of our education system is not about teaching.

If you read most of the text books that come out, they proclaim the main reason was for slavery, and Lincoln was single-handedly responsible for freeing the slaves. This isn't accurate. The issue isn't mainly that schools don't teach. It's that the education board who orders the text books don't take the time to look at what's in the text books. Text books aren't accurate. They are written by other professors with Ph.D's in their respected subject. With those professors come different ideas and philosophies that they feel is responsible and what isn't. When I was a freshman in high school, I was encouraged to read this book called "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong." If anything, it clarifies what authors of American History text books like to sugar coat. Going into college, they seem to broaden the sense of the realities of American History, especially if history becomes your major... you basically have to erase everything that was taught to you in high school.

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If you read most of the text books that come out, they proclaim the main reason was for slavery, and Lincoln was single-handedly responsible for freeing the slaves. This isn't accurate. The issue isn't mainly that schools don't teach. It's that the education board who orders the text books don't take the time to look at what's in the text books. Text books aren't accurate. They are written by other professors with Ph.D's in their respected subject. With those professors come different ideas and philosophies that they feel is responsible and what isn't. When I was a freshman in high school, I was encouraged to read this book called "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong." If anything, it clarifies what authors of American History text books like to sugar coat. Going into college, they seem to broaden the sense of the realities of American History, especially if history becomes your major... you basically have to erase everything that was taught to you in high school.

Basically. Lincoln only freed the southern slaves and did so in an attempt to cripple the southern economy with hopes of an uprising.