Late Monday, after a day of incredulous news coverage, Trump took to Twitter to amplify his message and seemingly stress that he did know when Jackson died, writing: "President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!"
Donald J. Trump
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President Andrew Jackson, who died 16 years before the Civil War started, saw it coming and was angry. Would never have let it happen!
Jackson was a slave-holding plantation owner. Some historians do credit him with preserving the union when South Carolina threatened to secede in the 1830s over an individual state's ability to void federal tariffs. That controversy, though, was not about slavery, and the eventual compromise that preserved states' rights is viewed as a milestone on the way to the Civil War.
The Civil War was decades in the making, stemming from disputes between the North and South about slavery and whether the union or states themselves had more power. The question over the expansion of slavery into new western territories simmered for decades and Southern leaders threatened secession if anti-slavery candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860.
After Lincoln won without carrying a single Southern state, Southern leaders believed their rights were imperiled and seceded, forming the Confederate States of America. War erupted soon afterward as the North fought to keep the nation together.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for an explanation of Trump's reasoning.
Trump, during an African-American history month event, seemed to imply that the 19th century abolitionist Frederick Douglass was still alive. Trump said in February that Douglass "is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice."
While justifying the need for a southern border wall, Trump said last week that human trafficking is "a problem that's probably worse than any time in the history of this world," a claim that seemed to omit the African slave trade.
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Also "why was there the civil war" has been written about more than just about any subject in American history
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Trump referred to Jackson as the people's president.
"It was during the revolution that Jackson first confronted and defied an arrogant elite. Does that sound familiar?" the president said ahead of a rally he held earlier this year in Tennessee.
Shortly after being sworn in as president, Trump hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office as an apparent nod to the populist sentiments of his administration.
tRUMP is as dump as a turnip bottom that was left in the sun all day .
ReplyDeleteJackson had slaves as most northern / southern people ... that don't mean their kids believe in slavery .Jackson was long dead how the hell do he know what Jackson would do . inquirung minds want to know .
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It wouldn't hurt him to read a book now and again. He doesn't have a clue about American history. He is the most uneducated of all your modern presidents.
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