{"id":5878,"date":"2017-05-06T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2021-01-06T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T23:48:54","slug":"trump-the-civil-war-andrew-jackson-3rd-conditional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/trump-the-civil-war-andrew-jackson-3rd-conditional\/","title":{"rendered":"trump, the civil war, andrew jackson &#038; 3rd conditional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>donald trump<\/strong>, 45th president of the united states, has been  in the media this week for comments he made on monday related to president #7 of the u.s., <strong>andrew jackson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5887\" src=\"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><em>trump in front of a portrait of andrew jackson (ap photo\/andrew harnik)<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><strong>associated press<\/strong> white house correspondent <strong>jonathan lemire<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/trump-civil-war-question\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>trump, who has at times shown a <em>shaky grasp<\/em> of u.s.\u00a0history, questioned why issues <em>couldn&#8217;t \u00a0have been settled<\/em> to prevent the war that followed the secession of 11 southern states &#8230;&#8230;he suggested that <em>if<\/em>\u00a0 jackson <em>had been<\/em> president &#8220;a little later, u <em><u>wouldn&#8217;t have had<\/u><\/em>\u00a0the civil war.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<p><em><strong>shaky<\/strong><\/em> means\u00a0<em>questionable <\/em>in this context, but can\u00a0mean <em>moving your body in a sexy way<\/em>\u00a0too, like in these tracks by <strong>daddy yankee<\/strong> and <strong>the ian carey project<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daddy Yankee - Shaky Shaky (Video Oficial)\" width=\"758\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKuivabiOns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/richyrocks-youtube-subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fun efl practice\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-smiley\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/simple-smile.png?w=668\" alt=\":)\" width=\"17\" height=\"17\" \/>\u00a0richyrocks english on youtube<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ian Carey Project - Get Shaky [Official Music Video]\" width=\"758\" height=\"569\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UOgBFL6bJTY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>grasp<\/strong><\/em> in the paragraph above means\u00a0<em>understanding<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/settle-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>settle<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0means <em>fix, arrange<\/em>.\u00a0<strong><em>could have been settled<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>wouldn&#8217;t have had<\/em><\/strong> are hypothetical situations in the past (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/third-conditional-posts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>3rd conditional<\/strong><\/a>). <em><strong>had been<\/strong><\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/richyrocks-past-perfect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>past perfect<\/b><\/a>, and used with <strong><em>if<\/em><\/strong>, as it is here, can be used to indicate a hypothetical situation in the past.<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s common to use the 3rd conditional when speculating about history. \u00a0in fact, it&#8217;s interesting to see how many different variations there are to say more or less the same thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/andrew-jackson-war-of-1812.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5894\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/andrew-jackson-war-of-1812.jpg\" alt=\"andrew jackson at the battle of new orleans\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6><em>andrew jackson was a hero for winning the battle of new orleans during the war of 1812 (decpicted here), but he had been dead for 15 years when the civil war started.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><strong>usnews.com<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2017-05-02\/trump-asks-why-american-civil-war-couldnt-have-been-avoided\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">reports<\/a> trumps views on american history\u00a0with this headline<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"hero-heading flex-media-heading heading-larger heading-largest-for-medium-up text-tighter block-normal\">Trump Asks Why American Civil War <em><u>Couldn&#8217;t Have Been Avoided<\/u><\/em><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/avoid-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>avoid<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>gives the idea <em>it didn&#8217;t need to happen<\/em>. lemire describes trump&#8217;s perspective like this<\/p>\n<h4>president andrew jackson was angry about &#8220;what was happening&#8221; <em>with regard to<\/em> the war, which started 16 years after his death, and\u00a0<em><u>could have stopped it <\/u><\/em>\u00a0 if still in office.<\/h4>\n<p><em><strong>with regard to<\/strong><\/em> means <em>about<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h6><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5893\" src=\"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-gop-2016-debate-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"trump making a dumbass face to mock an opponent\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-gop-2016-debate-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/trump-gop-2016-debate.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6><em>civil war. so stupid.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>trump&#8217;s <em><strong>direct <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/quote-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quote<\/a><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/quote-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a>(what he actually said) that caused the most <strong><em>furor<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(public anger) on-line was<\/p>\n<h4>people don&#8217;t ask that question, but why was there the civil war? why\u00a0<em><u>could that one not have been worked out<\/u><\/em>?<\/h4>\n<p><strong><em>work out<\/em><\/strong> means <em>resolve, fix<\/em>. as lemire points out, the causes of the civil war are indeed widely\u00a0debated in various forums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/andrew-jackson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5895\" src=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/andrew-jackson.jpg\" alt=\"andrew jackson\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6><em>andrew jackson is remembered as a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/populist-definition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">populist<\/a> who hated indians &amp; owned slaves.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>trump was also criticized for\u00a0appearing to not realize that andrew jackson died in 1845, 16 years before the start of the u.s. civil war, which lasted from 1861-1865. \u00a0in response, he\u00a0posted a tweet to show he knew this and that jackson \u00a0<strong><em><u>would never have let<\/u><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0the civil war happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/859209801175269376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>eric foner<\/strong>, a columbia university history professor and civil war expert, doesn&#8217;t agree. he says<\/p>\n<h4>even andrew jackson, were he alive, <em><u>could not have solved<\/u><\/em>\u00a0the problem<\/h4>\n<p>in addition, foner named\u00a0slavery as the <strong><em>root cause<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(primary motivation) of the civli war, a fact most americans learn in elementary school history.<\/p>\n<p>andrew jackson was a slaveholder and an indian hater responsible for a policy of <strong><em>ethnic cleansing<\/em><\/strong> (genocide) against the indigenous people of america. so not only does trump&#8217;s &#8220;why did it have to happen?&#8221; question seem stupid, the imagery feels like another intentional effort to satisfy the racists who elected him.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5888\" src=\"http:\/\/richyrocks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1200px-US_20_Series_2006_Obverse-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"andrew jackson on the $20\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1200px-US_20_Series_2006_Obverse-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1200px-US_20_Series_2006_Obverse-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1200px-US_20_Series_2006_Obverse-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richyrocks.com\/coolenglish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/1200px-US_20_Series_2006_Obverse.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<h6><em>andrew jackson is on the $20 bill, but not for long. he is set to be replaced by <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/harriet-tubman-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harriet tubman<\/a>\u00a0starting in 2020.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>what do u think? 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