[netmilsmom]

If one understands that the Civil War was not about freeing slaves (a depicable practice that should have been ended) as it was about states rights, it all becomes clearer.

It must be tough for you to homeschool something that doesn't interest you. I can't even imagine. Homeschoolers are miracle workers.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I think I have a mental block on this war. I have to do more research on it before I can teach it ,for sure. I have some problem with the states right thing though.

I don't know what to think about it.

My husband is up on all of the military issues and wars, so this is really his department. I can handle some of the other wars, esp. the revolutionay war.

As far as homeshcooling things that don't interest me. I look at it through the eyes of my kids. I think about how I would like to have learned a topic. Mostly they teach themselves, I just have to get them the materials they need. Besides, I always need to learn things myself. It is fun!

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If one understands that the Civil War was not about freeing slaves (a depicable practice that should have been ended) as it was about states rights, it all becomes clearer.

Freeing the slaves wasn't an issue at the beginning of the war, but things wouldn't have reached the point of secession and war if it hadn't been for slavery and the debate over whether it was a good thing. That doesn't mean that everyone was fighting for or against slavery, but it does mean that if we leave slavery out of the picture we get further from what was actually going on.