SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
LINCOLNS ELECTION
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Question
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Jefferson Davis
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Abraham Lincoln
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Frederick Douglass
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John Brown
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865.
Detailed explanation-2: -On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
Detailed explanation-3: -Davis resigned from the Senate in January 1861, after Mississippi seceded from the Union. When the Confederate Congress met in Montgomery, Alabama the following month, it unanimously chose Davis-the Southern leader with the most impressive political and military record-as president of the Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-4: -On November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected president, not of the United States of America but of the Confederate States of America. He ran unopposed and was elected to serve for a six-year term. Davis had already been serving as the temporary president for almost a year.