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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Abraham Lincoln for the Union; Jefferson Davis for the Confederacy
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
They died at different times and by different ways
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.
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Jefferson Davis was born in Christian City, Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky. Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President until he was assassinated in 1865.
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Abraham Lincoln was the president-elect when the Southern states began to secede. Some of them seceded after he was inaugurated as President.
Abraham Lincoln for the Union; Jefferson Davis for the Confederacy
No. Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy. (Abraham Lincoln was the president of the union.)
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Jefferson Davis Abraham Lincoln's opponent.
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