The South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification was enacted into law on November 24, 1832. As far as South Carolina was concerned, federal laws could be dismissed and there was no tariff. A line had been drawn. Would President Jackson dare to cross it? Jackson rightly regarded this states-rights challenge as so serious that he asked Congress to enact legislation permitting him to use federal troops to enforce federal laws in the face of nullification. Fortunately, an armed confrontation was avoided when Congress, led by the efforts of Henry Clay, revised the tariff with a compromise bill. This permitted the South Carolinians to back down without "losing face." In retrospect, Jackson's strong, decisive support for the Union was one of the great moments of his Presidency. If nullification had been successful, could secession have been far behind?
The secession of 1860 and early 1861 did not come as the result of a popular vote. It was forced through the confederate states by a small group of Democrat Party activists.
If a strong president had threatened the use federal troops in 1860 there it is likely there would not have been a secession.
President Buchanen worked with Jefferson Davis and the secessionists to help them.
President Jackson had many faults and no one can say for certain what would have actually happened. But Trump is far more knowledgeable regarding U.S. history than the media.
I knew coming to FR would explain it all. I just knee jerk ignore the news when I hear it now.
I’m a Tennessean, born & bred. My ancestors fought on the
Confederate side; great-great grandfather fought at Shiloh.
I grew up with my parents taking me to Shiloh, which was
close to the town where I was born.
My folks did not worship Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln did NOT
have to have that war; and he did a lot of illegal stuff
while “winning” that war. (My folks who fought the Civil
War did not own slaves; they did their own work.) I did
have some distant kinfolks who had slaves down in the
Georgia Indian Territory in the late 1700’a. One of the
boys married a Cherokee woman; his momma pitched a fit,
his daddy gave him his inheritance in gold. He & my
5th great-grandmother took a riverboat up the Tinase
River to Perryville, Tennessee. That’s partly how I ended
up in Tennessee. One of their kids was a lightskeeper on
the Tinase (Tennessee) River & carried the Smith &
Wesson revolver that I now own. - A lot of water under
the old bridge.
Exactly correct for those who take the time to learn the history and not just the click bait
South’s white supremacist system and the South’s articles of secession make it clear the South fought over slavery, they committed massacres of blacks.
They wrote the tariff laws in 1856; saying it was about tariffs is neo-confederate hogwash.
Then it took another 100 years and hundreds of lynchings, denying voting rights after that to establish a just system.
You can't know that. It is far more likely that threat would have been met by threat and war broken out before Lincoln was inaugurated rather than after.
The “media” dodo’s don’t really love and read history. History to them is a series of black and white slogans.
bfl
No kidding
They are the ignorant ones
Trump was right
Jackson was pessimistic and said so
Who writes this crap