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because Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860 and didn't believe in the expansion of slavery, which the south depended on as their economic livelihood, the south seceeded from the northern free states and created the Confederacy. The south elected Jefferson Davis as the president of the Confederacy, and they went to war with the Northern states, called Union in the American Civil War, which Abraham Lincoln led in the war.
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What is a good project to compare and contrast Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
A good way to compare Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis is to make a Venn Diagram
Who were the presidents of the North and South during the US Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln for the Union; Jefferson Davis for the Confederacy
What two presidents fought in the black hawk war in Illinois?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
How were Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis alike and different on slavery?
They died at different times and by different ways
Who is Jefferson Davis brothers and sisters?
Jefferson Davis had nine brothers and sisters by his mother Jane. Joseph was Jane's oldest and Jefferson was her youngest. Some believe, as does the author, that Jefferson Davis had another sibling by his father Samuel and Nancy Lincoln. That would be Abraham Lincoln.
