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Wartime Leaders: Abraham Lincoln vs Jefferson Davis

Wartime Leaders: Abraham Lincoln vs Jefferson Davis. Tom Sculley and Matt Varian . Pre-Civil war: Lincoln. Served in the Illinois state legislature for 4 terms and in the House of Representatives in 1846.

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Wartime Leaders: Abraham Lincoln vs Jefferson Davis

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  1. Wartime Leaders: Abraham Lincoln vs Jefferson Davis Tom Sculley and Matt Varian

  2. Pre-Civil war: Lincoln • Served in the Illinois state legislature for 4 terms and in the House of Representatives in 1846. • Ran for Senator of Illinois in 1858 and was defeated by Stephen Douglas, who previously held the position in the Senate. • Believed that slavery was evil and didn’t think that it should be spread to the territories. Also believed that African Americans were guaranteed “life, liberty, and justice.” • Won the 1960 Presidential Election. • After his victory, many southern states decided to secede from the Union in response to the election. The first state to secede was South Carolina on December 20, 1860.

  3. Pre-civil war: Davis • Went to college at West Point and settled upon a military career. • Fought in the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the Mexican War • Elected to Congress in 1845 • Served as a US Senator for Mississippi for two terms, and served as the Secretary of War in between those terms • Resigned from the Senate when Mississippi seceded in 1861 • Elected as president of the Confederacy, was disappointed because he wanted a high military command role • Believed in the use of slavery and its expansion into the territories

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  5. Negatives

  6. Cabinets

  7. Congress

  8. Financing the war

  9. Economic impact of the war

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