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SoLongAtlas
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« on: May 01, 2017, 01:32:50 PM »

Jackson being a southerner and a slaveowner of the landed plantation class would have tried to work a deal but in the end like many others of 1860-61 would have said screw it and sided with the secessionists. The Civil War would have happened regardless because both sides were very firmly entrenched and would not budge, southern to Mexican and Cuba expansion of slavery due to soil degradation and more slaves = more land needed, abolitionists unwillingness to give an inch on the rights of people not property, etc.

It could have been avoided but only by buyout or massive repatriation programs, things the south largely did not want and avoided as well as acceptance of the Republican Party and trends of northern leadership on the federal level. It was a marginalized and marginalizing society year after year. Post-1854, war was inevitable even if Jackson was born a few decades later but if he was he would have never achieved his fame in the Battle of New Orleans and thus never won the Democratic nomination - moot point.
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