The Text's Authors Have Presented the View That "If Jackson

question 19

Essay

The text's authors have presented the view that "if Jackson had only strangled the serpent of secession in the cradle [during the nullification crisis], ... there might have been no costly Civil War." Do you think that Andrew Jackson acted wisely in the nullification crisis? Why or why not?

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