[VIDEO] In one of my classrooms in school there was a chart of all the president up to that point think about 1991 so that would be up to President George Herbert Walker Bush. Some of us may know about Thomas Jefferson, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln. However Zachary Taylor who was the 12th P.O.T.U.S. was one of the many really obscure Presidents.
One reason why is that he died in office very early in his presidency which only lasted from 1849 to 1850. John F. Kennedy probably would be comparable as he died almost three years into his presidency and already faced some major crises (think Cuban Missile Crisis) and he had a bold agenda which included landing men on the moon.
For Zachary Taylor he was one of the pre-Civil War presidents and well what's discussed in the above video with the narration by Professor Joseph Fornieri is whether or not he could've been able to prevent the Civil War. I do consider myself a history buff, however, it's hard for me to say.
Taylor was willing to deal with secessionists by executing them. He seemed very uncompromising when it comes to the balance between free & slave states. Then again he also held slaves himself, however, the argument is that he was willing to admit the territories as free states that he helped gain in the Mexican-American War as an Army General.
However, since within the midst of trying to bridge the divide in America at that time he passed away we'll never really know if he'd be able to prevent a Civil War. Historians can continue to speculate on whether or not the Civil War was inevitable.
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