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Essay / A comparison between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis eighty-five miles apart, followed different paths towards the eminence. As different as their backgrounds, training and experience were, they both eventually turned to politics and grappled with the issues of their times. The United States that Lincoln and Davis grew up in was a very raw, energetic, and booming world that ushered in the commercial and industrial revolution that otherwise created a country of great opportunity. These opportunities were given to people who fought against the established order to protect their rights, and it was up to Lincoln and Davis to protect those rights no matter how many battles were fought and no matter how much bloodshed. paid. The United States, confined within modest borders unchanged for a generation, would face the most intense war in a five-year period. Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis would face incomprehensible tactics by their most powerful military leaders, an economic failure challenged by the subject of slavery and religion, and their own questionable differences that would forever change the history of America. When President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) took office, he did not command much respect from American citizens as a military leader. Lincoln led actions that brought his West Point generals into more aggressive territory. Although he did not have the education or military experience of his Confederate counterpart Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), he continued his abilities as a fearless leader by becoming a student of...... middle of paper ... ... Both Lincoln and Davis were raised in a Democratic atmosphere; Lincoln became a Whig, Davis remained a Democrat. Their interests in public affairs continued to grow, before and until the end of the Civil War. As leaders of their respective people during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis faced and faced similar problems. The solutions to their problems and the policies designed and followed by both men were compounded by the actions of their generals and crippling economies fighting for what was considered right in America. In general, the ideas of Lincoln and Davis came from the same Anglo-American source; and frequently both men's ideas echoed those expressed by their common American ancestors and contemporaries. These contemporaries being the founding fathers of the United States of America.
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