The Confederacy: a bunch of rich white men who got a bunch of poor white men to fight and die for the rich people's right to own slaves because at least being white meant the poor white people were better than somebody.
The Union: a bunch of rich white men who got a bunch of poor white men to fight for them in the name of FREEDOM!!!! but made sure to still treat non-white people and people who weren't the right kind of white (ie Irish, Polish, etc) like shit.
LOOOOOOOOOOL Also women don't exist I guess hahahaaha. Though, I frankly admit I don't know much about treatment of some European ethnic groups during the civil war. I know more about it post Civil War and can talk about it best with Irish, Russian, Italian and Jewish. Not so much with the Poles.
And for a great bunch of racist and classist fuckery, there's the New York Draft Riots. Basically: rich white people make draft, create exception where rich people can get out of draft, leaving poor people (esp immigrants) to be drafted. This pisses poor people and immigrants off, and they riot and kill a bunch of black people. Yay US history!
Um, well, in tulsa there was some great early Cherokee-Black relations that could have served as an example for mixed ethnic communities working together post-Civil War and then white people screwed it up.
The Union: a bunch of rich white men who got a bunch of poor white men to fight for them in the name of FREEDOM!!!! but made sure to still treat non-white people and people who weren't the right kind of white (ie Irish, Polish, etc) like shit.
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They were at home, taking care of shit and working their asses off for half the wages a man would have gotten.
As for the European ethnic groups: well, the Irish were especially hated.
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I know that Irish were hated, just don't know the extent of it during the civil war period. :p
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True.
And for a great bunch of racist and classist fuckery, there's the New York Draft Riots. Basically: rich white people make draft, create exception where rich people can get out of draft, leaving poor people (esp immigrants) to be drafted. This pisses poor people and immigrants off, and they riot and kill a bunch of black people. Yay US history!
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Um, well, in tulsa there was some great early Cherokee-Black relations that could have served as an example for mixed ethnic communities working together post-Civil War and then white people screwed it up.
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