Pariah and Doc are correct. If anything, the Republican party putting an end to slavery is what created the impetus for the industrial revolution, not the other way around.
well i know the north was more industrialized and hence had less of a need for slave labor, but the US didn't really go steam-powered until after the Civil War.
Just because a Republican ended slavery, and Woodrow Wilson was a Democrat and a racist, doesn't reflect the modern party. Technically it was a Democrat who ended segregation in the federal government (yes, i realize it was Wilson a Democrat who resegregated it after Lincoln) and it was a Democrat who signed Civil Rights into law. Meanwhile their Republican counterparts at the time strongly opposed civil rights as much as the current Republicans strongly oppose gay rights. So, the real question G-man is why has your party betrayed the principles of Lincoln?
