2006-07-24 00:31:02 · 10 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Slavery was the backbone of the South's economy, but the country as a whole did not get rich. By the time the Civil War erupted, the North's economy was based mostly on industry with just pockets of agriculture.
As for selling arms to Britain and France, that happened in both WWI and WWII. That was Germany's main reasoning behind sinking US Merchant ships that eventually drug the US into WWI and PM Churchill gave his impassioned speech before the US Congress asking for more arms sales and further involvement during WWII.
I don't think this is cursing the US.
2006-07-24 00:37:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If either of those were remotely true, then America wouldn't have suffered as it did during the Great Depression starting in 1929. This was a time of strife and intense poverty for the majority of Americans, having the worst unemployment rates during any time in American history. Ironically, it took a second world war to help put the country back on its feet.
2006-07-24 00:51:21 · answer #2 · answered by Shadar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes America did get rich from those things and many other much worse things. No America is not cursed. Curses are imaginary.
2006-07-24 00:36:16 · answer #3 · answered by Ray H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes AmeriCANS got rich from slavery...and yes AmeriCA will be cursed if they don't pay CASH to the decendants of the slaves!
2006-07-24 00:40:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
America got rich from being a capitalist society. Slavery was actually an impediment.
2006-07-24 02:15:42 · answer #5 · answered by FiatJusticia 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i believe some first American settlers became rich if they had the means. slavery saved money, but i think it was the product or trading goods like tobacco and wheat that made the settlers rich and therefore starting a wealthy country. something like that.
2006-07-24 00:38:14 · answer #6 · answered by thomas c 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-15 03:39:59 · answer #7 · answered by garfield 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just to inform you that slavery is NOT a "white men exercise" but black chiefs in Africa, and that slavery still exist in Africa.
2006-07-24 00:46:27 · answer #8 · answered by zilber 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
And Yes.
2006-07-24 00:36:17 · answer #9 · answered by P. M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it did! Americans REPENT!
2006-07-24 00:36:52 · answer #10 · answered by mikkenzi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋