Jefferson Davis

He strongly believed in slavery. He believed that African-Americans were better off into slavery. He thought that they weren't being treated as badly as they were, though. He simply pushed that factor out of his mind; he had better things to worry about. Jefferson also had a temper, and believed that if pushed the right way, war was necessary. He defended himself, and if he got a dirty look, he feel compelled to act and attack them back.

Davis was a strong advocate of the secession and although he was once a loyal US soldier, a graduate of West Point and the US Secretary of War in the 1850's, he was bent on the Southern rebellion.

After seceding, he would have been quite happy without a war, if Lincoln had granted official recognition to the Confederacy.

But when Lincoln declared that he would defend Fort Sumter (which the Confederacy considered its own), and then called for new volunteer troops, Davis felt he had to mobilise.

To be theoretically correct there were 187 slaves owned by Thomas Jefferson. One of these lady slaves, Sally Hemmings, had a total of 7 kids, only 4 surviving for any significant period of time. Sally's "relationship" with Jefferson cannot be thought of as consensual and reciprocal as she was, in fact, Jefferson's property and any refusal of his advances could have been punished with death.

Thomas Jefferson worried about the Missouri Compromise in 1820 because it seemed to split the nation along "slave" and "free" lines. He called it something like "an alarm bell in the night." (Google the exactly quotation if you wish.) Prior to this time politicians did not think in terms of the nation being divided into two different regions, but Jefferson saw that this would lead to conflict. In addition, Jefferson and most other people of his generation had thought of slavery as something that would just go away soon.

Jefferson Davis was the secretary of defence for the United States under President Pierce. The office was then called the secretary of war. He was also a senator from Mississippi.

he thought it was only okay if your mom did it .

On paper, Jefferson Davis had all the credentials to be the political leader of the Confederacy. He was intelligent, and before graduating from West Point, he had attended Transylvania University, ( the school exists today )

Davis had a protracted tenure in public service in both the legislative and executive branches of the US government. He was perfectly at home in Washington DC and later in Richmond. He had been elected to the House of Representatives and later to the US Senate. He had also served for a term as the US Secretary of War. He also had earned a reputation of being a man of courage.

His weakness was to be slow in delegating power and his interference in military matters that would have best been handled by a top general.

Davis' favorite meal was a bisque of corn and crab meat with a hint of spice. It was supposedly told from slave to slave to finally son and grandson for generations. As far as I know, living near Beauvoir and having the same meal served to me with a rousing story about Davis partaking in this particular meal they referred to as his "favorite". As for the drink part? All I know is that he liked alcohol a little too much in West Point.

Ha-ha I don't know.. listen to the teacher next time!

Jefferson Davis did not choo0se to go to war. Realistically he did not have the capacity for it. instead Lincoln pressured Jefferson to walk the confederates into battle.

(1808-1889) was president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.

Jefferson Davis was named provisional president of the Confederacy February 18, 1861. He was later elected president in November 1861 and inaugurated February 22, 1862.

No, Davis was a democrat. He served as a democratic senator for Mississippi during the 1850's. It is a common misconception that Republicans have always been the party associated with racial intolerance. Up until the early-to-mid 20th century, the two main political parties' stances on race relations were the opposite of what they are depicted as today.

a. In a society that prized states' rights, Davis had to centralize authority.

Robert E. Lee was in the beginning of the civil war.

As a war leader Jefferson Davis was proved incapable of handling the Confederacy's home front problems. He was the President of the confederate states from 1861 until 1865.

West point, for one.

Jefferson Davis was a member of the Democratic Party when he served in the United States Congress (before he joined the Confederacy and became the President of the Confederate States).

As Lee had surrendered the only sizeable Confederate army left, the war was effectively over, and Lincoln's wife said she had never seen him looking so relaxed and content.

Joe Johnston's small army was still in action, but would surrender before the end of the month. Other insignificant units were still skirmishing in the West, and the Confederacy would not be officially dissolved until the summer.

But the end of the Civil War is normally taken to be April 9th 1865, just five days before the fatal shots were fired in Washington.

Nothing much. He is not regarded as a great President or as a great man.

He was not even wanting to be President. He was a retired military man who hoped to lead the Confederate armies, but his record as virtual Commander-in-Chief is not impressive.

His accomplishment was to keep life in a doomed cause for four years, and he did manage to inspire loyalty to that cause almost to the end. It has been known ever since as the Lost Cause.

Davis was basically an anachronism - a landowning aristocrat with strongly feudal principles, including obligations to his slaves. (He treated them so well that they didn't want their freedom.)

At the surrender of Robert E. Lee, Davis's character failed him. He went into denial, fleeing with his cabinet, and talking wildly about continuing the fight from somewhere West of the Mississippi.

He was rightly jailed for his treason, but not many people wanted to see him hanged, and he was personally liked and respected for his noble qualities, however unfitted they were for the second half of the 19th Century.

no necessarily racist, but he was a hypocrite. he preached how slavery should be abolished, even though he owned slaves.

Stopped all exports of cotton at the beginning, to make the rest of the world feel the loss, and pressure them into granting official recognition to the Confederacy, in order for trade to resume. In fact, there was a glut of cotton on the world market that year, and the only result was a failure by the Confederacy to exchange cotton for war supplies in the interval before the US Naval blockade became effective.

Hastened the fall of Vicksburg by urging the garrison commander (Pemberton) to hold the town at any cost, when Pemberton's area commander Joe Johnston was telling him to abandon the place and save his army. Grant was able to exploit this confusion and besieged Pemberton until he surrendered.