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The war divided so many people living in the United States. The war was between the
Northern people which had a more up to date way of living and wanted to end slavery and
an agricultural way of life. The South wanted to keep slavery and not change their way of
The war started on April 12, 1861 when Southern troop fired on a United States
military post in Charleston, South Carolina. It lasted four years on April 9, 1865 General
Robert E. Lee an Confederate surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant in a
small Virginia settlement. The North had won victory in the early 1864 because they
were wearing down the South. The South was losing alot of battles and the North was
using alot of the Confederacy areas. And also the Southern railroad had almost stopped
running but that didn't stop the South they still fought for over a year
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problem facing the Confederacy was not enough resources. Union supplies were far more advanced than those of the Union's
ability to export agricultural products added cash to the Union.
* Lost most of their good military officers to the South. As a result
the Confederate government was always trying to fill the ranks of it's army. Which was the only way they could survive. In their crop- based
economy, money was rare and there outdated factories made weapons production hard
before the war the South dependent on imports and the federal blockade began to limit
southern access to these products like food, medicine, and clothing the Confederate army
began to suffer.
* Their long coastline, while a benefit in sneaking in supplies was
also a detriment in trying to defend it
* Southern slaves, a large patt of the population, were clearly no
help.
But the Confederacy had advantages over the union too even though it didn't help like:
* Trading Relationships with Europe
* Best Military officers like Robert E.
* British and French leaders sympathized with then due to economic reasons
The Confederacy also had disadvantages which was probably a factor for then losing the
war like:
* Their smaller Navy left then a disadvantage due to the Union
blockade.
The North was more industrialized then the South and counted on manufacturing,
banking, and other financial enterprises for alot of it's income was also an important
agricultural region with the exception of cotton, the North out- produced the South in every
type of agriculture.
* Little industry and factory production
Some of the factors that caused the South to lost the war are:
The Confederacy during the Civil War didn't have enough people, the slaves weren't
excepted to fight to protect slavery because they were granted the right to enlist in the army
to fight against slavery so the south's population became smaller then the North.
The North won the Civil War because they had certain advantages over the
Confederacy like:
* Banking, Factories, and ships
*More railroads to move supplies, men and equipment
* larger navy
* Experienced government
* Larger population, 22 million to 9 million
Even though the Union had advantages they also had disadvantages like:
* They were not as " into it"
* Northerners were not in complete agreement over the abolition of slavery. Lee
* Long coastline made blockade difficult
* They were convinced they were right
* They were fighting for their lives and on their own soil.
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