Could the civil war have been prevented?
The only way war could have been averted would have been to elect a president who was in favor of states' rights.
Could the Civil War have been prevented?
Yes. Compromise had been reached before,so there was no reason why it couldn't have been reached again,if enough people had been willing to sit down for long enough and do so.Popular Sovereignty was actually a good idea,but weak local law enforcement made abuse of the system too easy,and this led to violence - in many cases extreme - by partisans of both factions.Sending troops in to keep order and ensure a fair count for Popular Sovereignty votes could well have worked.
Could the american civil war have been prevented?
sure. while the slavery was not an issue until late in the war, it did create a lot of bad feelings. Offering freedom and full citizenship to the slaves was not on the books (especially to the northeners- after all it was the northeners who insisted on segregated military units) but a law stating "every man born on US soil is born free" could have been passed- and slavery would have gradually ended (especially as this coincided with the mechanisation of the previously labour intensive farm jobs) the main thing to avoid would be the attempt to impose taxes on the south- and favour the northern industries. This was the main cause of southern discontent- northern greed (thinly hidden by a veneer of liberalism)
Could Andrew Jackson have prevented the U.S. Civil War?
He would have been 94 years old if he had still been living in 1861, and given the kind of life he led, it’s hard for me to believe he could have prevented the conflict at the age of 94 even had he still been living. It’s sort of a miracle that he lived to be 78. (Could be that Heaven didn’t want him and he was such a badass that the Devil knew he’d take over Hell.)But if he somehow could have still been healthy in 1861, then I think there’s a chance he might have done that. First of all, Jackson was a staunch Unionist; he was a veteran of the American Revolution, believed in what it stood for, and stated many times that he believed the Union was indivisible. And in the Nullification Crisis, he practiced what he preached, threatening to put himself at the head of the Army, at the age of 61, and march on South Carolina if they didn’t back down.Jackson was a firm believer in slavery, but he was also a believer in compromise, as he did with South Carolina once they stopped threatening to secede. He had no problem with the Missouri Compromise, or the idea that people could ban slavery from their territory if they didn’t want it. In 1860–61, Jackson wouldn’t have supported Abraham Lincoln, but I don’t think he would have gone against everything he’d ever believed in had Lincoln won. My guess is that his favored candidate would have been Sam Houston, who sought the Constitutional Union Party nomination that year at age 67, but lost out to John Bell because Houston was also a “Union man” above all else, and had publicly favored retaining the Missouri Compromise. The two men had been associated with each other since the War of 1812, and never had a disagreement except on Indian removal.The main reason the Civil War occurred was that the generation that came after men like Jackson and Henry Clay was radicalized on the issue of slavery, and didn’t have the common unifying factor of having fought in the American Revolution or the War of 1812 (which was seen by Americans of that era as a “second War of Independence”). A Jackson who was still living and in the public eye as late as 1861 would have been a giant of American history, but he still would have been a minority voice from a bygone era. Whether or not he could have made a difference, we’ll never know—but if anyone could have, it would have been him.
Could The Civil War Been Avoided?
Lately I've been wondering if there was a way to prevent the Civil War? I know the North and South each had very distinct beliefs but couldn't they have come up with an agreement? I would really appreciate it if somebody gave me what they thought could have been done to avoid it and why they believe that. Thanks in advance.