What was James Buchanan failures as president?

Answer 1

Buchanan is known as the "Do nothing President" and that phrase is an apt one.

He was unwilling to take an bold action towards handling the slavery issue and did nothing when seven Southern seceded on after another. Mostly he just marked time and let events happen as they would.

Answer 2

In 1857, an economic depression hit which is now known as the Panic of 1857 and the North and West were hit the hardest and he did nothing to help the people or the depression.

He stated that the U.S should buy Cuba from Spain and he added by saying that if they refused then the U.S should take it by force.

By the time he was up for re-election he didn't run because he knew that he had lost support from the people.

By far the biggest failure and pretty much his legacy as president was that he did nothing to prevent the south from seceding from the union and he did nothing at all and he abandoned Fort Sumter and he completely ignored the aggressiveness of the South and he left office with the union divided.

Answer 3

His failure to do anything about the Civil War