Some gems I get to bring up:
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The Spanish under Isabella only enslaved Native Americans who practiced slavery & cannibalism because the Spanish thought it would be immoral to enslave tribes who never relied on slavery.
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The Republicans didn't "switch" positions with the Democrats. In close races Republicans didn't win the majority of former slave states until the 1996 election - nearly 40 years after the Civil Rights movement.
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McCarthy was maligned despite being proven correct. It was the House controlled by Democrats who went after celebrities.
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The Arab Slave Trade & Barbary Slave Trade
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Sam Adams had his men dress as Native Americans during the Boston tea party to symbolize no longer being British -- not to blame them.
The only other teacher who handles exclusively American History is also a huge Trump supporter so at least our graduating class for a few semesters will graduate knowing real history
At the time of the civil war, not a single Republican owned slaves.
After the war, Democrats instituted Jim Crow laws mandating segregation.
The KKK, both the Civil War and the mid- Jim Crow era versions, were Democrat soldiers who attacked black people who were too successful . . . and white Republicans.
Also why the black population of America did better under Jim crow laws. Not because they were better under subjugation but because of limited immigration.
I would add in the origin of gun control laws and their purpose as part of the jim crow legislation.
I don't know about "origin" so much as "yet another example," but yes.