What was Jefferson Davis against as president?

Answer 1

In the "War Between the States", or the "American Civil War", Jefferson Davis was fighting for independence of a slave-holding Confederate States of America apart from the Union of the United States of America. He joined Robert E. Lee in advocating military service and emancipation for slaves as southern states had in the US Revolution. He was defeated repeatedly by the slave power in the Confederate Congress which ultimately chose to maintain slavery and sacrifice independence. They lost their Confederacy, the "Lost Cause", their slaves and slavery. He had served as US Senator and US Secretary of War. His prior service to the United States intensified hatred of him in the North because he had occupied offices of trust in the US before the "Great Rebellion". Remarkably, Davis and his brother ran an ideal plantation in Mississippi where freedmen after the Civil War voluntarily became renters and sharecroppers on their lands. Very few slave masters were so ethical that their slaves stayed in any relationship with their former masters after emancipation. Generally slavery oppressed slaves and corrupted masters. He served an imprisonment on Dry Tortugas island following the end of the Civil War, then was repatriated and lived out his life as a prosperous life insurance agent.

Answer 2

He was opposed to tariffs on imported goods, which the South needed. He saw these as a direct tax on the South.

But the war was not caused by Davis's opposition to anything. It was caused by Lincoln's opposition to any extension of slavery (one of the conditions in the last attempted compromise.)

Answer 3

Ending Slavery

Answer 4

States rights and state sovereignty