The civil war killed 600,000 American men in 4 years. The south had seceded from the United States because the president Abraham Lincoln had said and passed a law that said you couldn’t own slaves. The south flourished with slaves so they left the United States. That was okay since that was what was supposed to happen, but Lincoln wanted the tax or “tariff” money so he started the war that killed the most Americans in history. A quote from Lincoln is “I have no purpose, directly or in-directly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so,” another is “My policy sought only to collect the Revenue (a 40 percent federal sales tax on imports to Southern States under the Morrill Tariff Act of 1861).”. In Europe an inventor named John Joseph Merlin made the first roller skates. He had gotten the idea from ice skates that have a blade in the center of the shoe but he replaced the blade with wheels lined up in a straight line but couldn’t swivel very good. He knew that public demonstrations was good advertising so at a party he planned to roller skate around while playing the violin but since he couldn’t turn he smashed into a mirror. James Plimpton saw that the country needed some relax time after the war so he invented the roller skates. His skates were different because they look like cars instead of ice blades and could easily turn. Parents could chaperon their kids and roller-disco music became a thing because of it.
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