in history after 1776 ,what would be a good topic to debate about?

Answer 1

a favorite topic of mine is the Japanese interment camps during WW2 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, were they right? Did we have the right to do that?


also, to the response above, slavery DID NOT CAUSE THE CIVIL WAR! That is an urban myth, slavery expansion was a major cause. The North feared the south could gain to much power by allowing slavery in every state and the white man would not have as many jobs.

Answer 2

How prohibition in the United States in the 1920s was a failure. I'm debating this next week in US history from 1865 :) If you research it, the facts show that more alcohol was consumed and the entire ordeal caused more trouble than what it was supposed to rid.

Answer 3

There was a great debate over the national symbol.

Jefferson wanted the dove, Adams wanted the eagle (obviously won) and Franklin wanted the turkey, the "sauce and sustenance of our earliest settlers; not afraid to charge a brigade of Bristish soldiers."

Answer 4

The Alien and Sedition Acts. John Adams (i think) created laws which reduced the rights of immigrants, the French in particular. You can even compare it to the treatment of illegals today.

Answer 5

I like the ones about the Alien and Sedition Acts and the Japanese Internment Camps.

Answer 6

The causes of the Civil War besides slavery.

Answer 7

How the british still maintained an interest in the colonies.

Answer 8

The decision to go to war with Iraq

Answer 9

whether or not the civil war was inevitable, if john brown was insane.