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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will call in my objection to the following "facts" being taught in our public schools:

--Columbus "discovered" America
--the first Thanksgiving was a peaceful gathering
--the first European settlers came here for religious freedom
--the civil war was fought to end slavery
--America was isolationist between WWI and WWII
--slavery existed mostly in southern states
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That's a weird mix of things.  This may be closer to the truth:

- Columbus wasn't the discoverer, not even the first European.

- Thanksgiving is a mess, yes, there needs to be better teaching for this

- The first European settlers came here to try and exploit new lands.  Some fled religious oppression by others but weren't exactly proponents of religious freedom either.

- Civil war was fought for a number of reasons, but one reason was *definitely* slavery.  Just look at the contemporary debates leading up to the Civil War in Congress, the Missouri Compromise, Bleeding Kansas, the violent attack on abolitionist Senator Sumner by southern pro-slave Preston Brooks, and so on.

- America wasn't "isolationist" - it had muddled international goals and objectives, some companies and industrialists were invested in Nazi Germany at the time.

- Slavery existed at some point in all states, nobody denies that - but in 1790, the overwhelming majority of slaves were concentrated in the south, with most in Virginia and South Carolina, and then slavery expanded further west and south, whereas by the 1820s, well prior to the civil war it was largely phased out in the northern states.  It's also a common misconception that white people were all slaveowners.  Even at the peak of slavery in 1840, less than 10% of whites owned slaves.[/quote]

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