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  1. 1. If you want to understand why there was a Civil War, actually understanding Andrew Jackson’s legacy would help.
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      2. From start of the US, slaveholders relied on federal government’s power to advance their interests.
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        3. The nationalism of many slaveholders is oft forgotten in popular understanding of history by facile equation of CSA with “states’ rights"
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          4. But enslavers cheered federal use of power to clear Native Americans off valuable cotton lands (thanks to Jackson) & seize new territory
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            5. For decades in which slaveholders controlled White House, there was no felt conflict between “Unionism" & slavery … until 1860.
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              6. Lincoln’s victory threatened the southern stranglehold on federal power that slaveholders like Jackson had always taken for granted.
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                7. Plenty of slaveholders tried, nonetheless, to argue against secession—precisely b/c they understood how the nation protected slavery.
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                  8. But Republicans were intent on “denationalizing” slavery: refusing its expansion & withdrawing federal support for slavery where possible
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                    9. Secessionists could not brook that program of denationalizing slavery, started a war, and lost, all while Jackson stayed dead. The End.
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                      10. PS better question is not “why doesn’t anyone ever ask, why the CW?” but “why, if historians agree it was slavery, they still ask why?"
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                        11. To extent CW causation is still a live issue for historians, it’s partly b/c we understand how vital slavery was to nation, vice versa.
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                          12. The question becomes: why did slavery spark the war when it did, when war HAD been avoided before, in 1850 say, or in 1820, or in 1830s
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                            13. Debate on that persists, but all answers point to causal forces that no one man—not AJ, not AL—started alone or could easily stop.
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