Do you think that Andrew Jackson acted wisely in the nullification crisis....?

Question

it has been said, "that if Jackson had only strangled the serpent of succession in the cradle (during the nullification crisis)....there might have been no costly civil war.....do you think he acted wisely.....?

Answer 1

Yes he acted wisely to stave off a pending revolt and the union being dissolved because it still was not strong enough to with stand such at the time.
But as for people thinking nothing short of accepting slavery would have staved off the civil war. That was not the case at all. the Civil starting and being about slavery is a myth that has become fact over the years through propaganda saying it was a war against slavery.
Slavery was not even an issue except in a few fire brands at the start of the war. People read your real history. Lincoln was of the planter class by marriage. He married into the planter class. (slave owning plantation class).
Slavery did not become an cause unit after the battle of Gettsburg when McClellan could not purse and defeat Lee because he had to split off half the union army and force march it to New York to put down pro Confederate roits and stop New York from succeeding from the union.
General Beauguard the Confederate General who opened fire on Fort Sumter was Creole, He wasn't white.
The same thing that started the revolutionary war started the Civil War and that was taxes.

Answer 2

Jackson is such a volatile personality it is hard for me to defend his actions but YES Jackson was right and South Carolina did back down. It is hard to imagine that by buckling down and giving into South Carolina's demands that Civil War would have been ultimately avoided. What South Carolina learned, a lesson taken to heart by the traitor Jefferson Davis, was that a Single State could not stand up against a United America, giving Davis and others the idea that a Confederacy (rhymes with treachery) of States might succeed against a dis United States.

But one way or another, states rights argument and all, nothing short of acceptance of Slavery would stave off Rebellion.

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PSS - - but yes Jackson was a terrible Diplomat and a calmer quiter man may have disfused the crisis quietly, but there wtill would have been a not so Civil War....

Answer 3

President Jackson condemned nullification and asserted the authority of the federal government # some argue that this disaster marked the 1st substantial step best to Civil conflict From Shmoop

Answer 4

i think he acted wisely...because the Union was withering down because it was weak.

course, i don't know much in this era..im more of a Victorian & Renassiance kind of girl...
but yeah, what do you think about Jackson's actions?
maybe you can educate me in the field.