Thursday, December 17, 2009

My essay about slavery and the Civil War

In the Southern states they have warm climates that are good for farming. They grew cotton, corn, and lots of large crops. Southern farmers used African slaves to work their farms. By using slaves farmers could make more money on their crops. During the Civil War, the Southern states wanted to leave the Union because they wanted the right to keep slaves.
The Union was the United States after independence from England. It was mostly the eastern part of the continent. The northern part of the Union did not have slavery. Many people in the north didn’t like slavery.
The southern states didn’t want to give up the right for slavery because they didn’t want to lose money or go broke. The southern states didn’t know how to make money without slaves. The southern states decided to leave Union so they could keep the right to keep slaves. The fight over slaves began the U.S Civil War.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Summer of the monkeys


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