1. Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis Paraphrasing Presidents

2. Jefferson Davis Biography Born June 3, 1808 in Christian County, Kentucky Lived in Louisiana and Mississippi West Point Military Academy Fought in Mexican-American War Married Zachary Taylor’s daughter, died 3 months after marriage Built Brierfield Plantation, owned slaves

3. Davis, continued Married Varina Howell 6 children Imprisoned after the war Released after 2 years and $100,000 bond Died December 6, 1889 Buried in Richmond, Virginia

4. Abraham Lincoln Biography Born March 4, 1809 in Harden County, Kentucky Lived in Indiana and Illinois No school Married Mary Todd 4 children Lawyer in Springfield, Illinois Assassinated April 15, 1865 Buried in Springfield, Illinois

5. Political Careers LincolnDavis Illinois House of Representatives U.S. House of Representatives President Of the United States U.S. Secretary of War U.S. Senator from Mississippi U.S. House of Representatives President of the Confederate States of America

7. Slavery Abraham Lincoln was opposed to the institution Of Slavery Jefferson Davis thought Slavery was necessary for the Southern economy

8. The United States Lincoln felt that the United States must remain intact. No one was allowed to leave it. Davis felt that States had the right to leave the United States, if they wanted.

9. Lincoln Quotes “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally” “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” “My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.”

10. Davis Quotes "Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule." "African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing." "All we ask is to be let alone." "The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language." If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.