building of the union was based on slaves..." we are going to have to disagree with you. Only the States in the South were slave states and the majority of them worked on plantations where cotton was the product. Mills in the north did not have slaves and the workers that were in the mills were not ex-slaves, they were mostly white males. There has been a lot of building in the United States and the majority was not placed on the backs of slaves as so many would want us to believe. It was placed on the backs of those that worked so as to support their families.

You use the term "rich, male, and white" as some sort of negative stereotype. Someone was needed to make theon a class envy mentality. Have you forgotten about the New Deal where relief was given to those that were poor and unemployed? Jobs were created. Projects were built. But that is not really want turned around the depression. Those were government backed jobs that did not really create growth as much as they put people to work and gave them a sense of worth. It was the outbreak of World War II and the industry of war. The building tanks, airplanes, and all the other weapons of war that saved America... and the world. Again, it was the "rich white males" that lead industry. Private enterprise and corporations that made America the financial world power it was at the end of the war. Everyone bought houses, new