What was your favorite subject in school?

@Gibbon My goodness.

@SmileOnYourBrother You must be a math person.

@ProfessorPlum77 Eh 🤷 ... I just liked it. Numbers don't lie. lol

@ProfessorPlum77 I think I just like to figure things out on my own rather than have programmed information shoved down my throat to memorize. Does that make sense?

@SethGreene531 Interesting.

@hippyjoe1955 I agree about math and physics.

@BizSuitStacy Another math person.

@SunshineGirl You actually got that right, the north was blockading the southern states from trading their tobacco and cotton with the UK and Europe, they had gotten immensely wealthy from it, and the north was jealous. The spark was when southern trade ships fired upon the north occupied southern port of Fort Sumpter, South Carolina, to run one such blockade. The rewritten portion is that modern public school textbooks essentially ignore those parts and focus on slavery. The truth is that the HUGE major majority of Confederate soldiers did not care about slavery, most of them actually opposed it, what they cared about and fought for was how the northern Yankees were encroaching on their state's rights, as the 9th and 10th amendments guaranteed, which the north was ignoring.

@NativePortlander1970 But slavery (and the way in which it distorted international markets) was still a factor, right? And the subsequent path of history - in which the property rights of former slave owners in the south took precedence over racial integration and basic human rights - might be a reason why some people take an interest in that particular facet. While others choose to interpret it in terms of constitutional ideals. History belongs to everyone. All views are welcome.

@SunshineGirl Slavery played a very, very small part in the war, Abraham Lincoln actually didn't even focus on it until 1863, two years into it, in fact during the famous 1860 Lincoln-Douglas debate, attendees wrote in diaries, journals, and in letters to others, that they essentially laughed and joked about slavery issues when they came up. I read one such letter, my late ex fiancee's ex brother in law is a massive civil war buff and participates in re-enactments with his New Jersey group, he has a huge collection of artifacts and papers from it.