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Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in Christian (now Todd) County, Kentucky, and educated at Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky. Military History U.S. Military Academy Graduated 1828. Afterwards was in the frountier service. Health forced him to resign from the army in 1835
Fought in the Mexican War at Monterrey and Buena Vista
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1856 presidential election
The United States presidential election of 1856 was a contest that led to the election of James Buchanan. Republican candidate John C. Frémont, Democrat Buchanan warned that the Republicans were extremists whose victory would lead to civil war. The Democrats endorsed the moderate popular sovereignty approach to slavery expansion used in the Kansas–Nebraska Act. Former President Millard Fillmore represented a third party, the relatively new American Party or “Know Nothing Party” -
1856 the Case of Dred Scott
Also known as the Dred Scott Decision, was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens. Despite the fact that the decision is no longer important it nevertheless had, and continues to have, lasting cultural. -
Lincoln and Douglas Debate
The Lincoln–Douglas Debates of 1858 were seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. At the time, U.S. senators were elected by state legislatures; Lincoln and Douglas were trying for their respective parties to win control of the Illinois legislature. The debates previewed the issues that Lincoln would face in the aftermath of his victory in the 1860 presidential election. -
1859 John Brown
John Brown was a man of action- a man who would not be stopped from his mission of eliminating slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan to arm slaves with the weapons he and his men took from the arsenal was thwarted, however, by local farmers, militiamen, and Marines led by Robert E. Lee. Within 36 hours of the attack, most of Brown's men had been killed or captured. John Brown was born into a deeply religious family. -
1860 Presidential Election
The nation had been divided throughout the 1850s on questions about the expansion of slavery and the rights of slave owners. In 1860, these issues finally came to a solution. The Democratic Party broke into Northern and Southern factions, and a new Constitutional Union Party appeared. In the face of a divided and dispirited opposition, the Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured enough electoral votes to put Abraham Lincoln in the White House with little support from the South. -
South Carolina Secedes
The convention had been called by the governor and legislature of South Carolina when Lincoln's victory was assured. Delegates were elected on December 6, 1860, and the convention convened on December 17. Its action made South Carolina the first state to secede. Support for the Union was negligible, and a distinguished South Carolina -
Southern States Secede
Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860. Southerners thought the government was becoming too strong. Southerners did not think the government had the right to tell them how they should live. Southerners thought if they stayed in the U.S. the North would be in control. Southerners decided to secede, the United States. -
1861 Confederate States of America
The Confederate states of America (also called Confederacy), Confederacy was made up in 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states. Those Southern slave states had already declared their secession from the United States. Secessionists were argumental about the United States Constitution as a compact among states, an agreement was created which each state could abandon with consultation. The Union ,(U.S. Government) rejected secession as illegal. Following a confederate attack upon Fort Sumter, -
february 1861 Crittenden Plan
The Crittenden plan was a compromise introduced in late February 1861 which did not pass because neither the south nor the north wanted to compromise with new ways; but it might have prevented secessions.
