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EnglishPete
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« on: May 01, 2017, 10:50:44 AM »

Donald Trump has come under some fire today for saying that Andrew Jackson was unhappy with the Civil War (he died in 1845) and that if he had been around later he could have stopped the Civil War, that something could have been worked out.

Now clearly what Andrew Jackson was angry about was the nullification crisis rather than the Civil War (perhaps this is a sly reference to 'sanctuary' cities effectively trying to nullify Federal immigration law).

However is Trump right in his suggestion that a President Andrew Jackson could have avoided  the Civil War? After all Mexico, the Federal Republic of Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, the British Empire, the French Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Dutch Empire and the Danish Empire all successfully abolished slavery without a Civil War?

Could the United States not have done have achieved the same? Come to some compromise that would have averted war and then moved towards peacefully ending slavery sometime in the 1870s or 1880s as happened in Cuba and Brazil?
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