The main reason the North wanted to maintain the Union was because they had not want other states seceding. Slavery was a very big issue for the North. Abolition and journalist, William Lloyd Garrison, stated in Document 4 that, “Slavery’s spirit is as brutal as unnatural; as it means it is wicked, as relentless as it is monstrous.” Even though, it’s true, the North did not want to abolish slavery from states that were a part of the Union. This was a way the North maintained the Union.…
The South did have some advantages though. Several Indian tribes joined the Confederacy, and the Union troops would have to move in and conquer the land, then force it to be a part of the Union again. They also had more talented military leaders than the North. But the North had more men, most of the railroads, and they controlled the sea. The government of the North was well established, and functioned with little difficulty in comparison to the new and hastily made government in the South. Both sides had disadvantages as well. The South began to run out of supplies, they did not have a major transportation system, and they had a weak economy. Some of their troops refused to fight outside their own states. The North’s disadvantages were the men being unprepared for military life, and poor choice of commanders.…
Economically, the South had one relied resource and one only: cotton. It was the root of their profits, their lives, their surroundings. Despite the white majority of the 1860’s not being a part of the planter aristocracy, it was still their personal American Dream: to own slaves on a plantation with a pretty wife and white kids. The Southern economy depended primarily on the production and working of slaves, as the cheap labor force. On the industrial hand, the North was all about hard work and…equal rights, but mostly hard work. Their primary focus for economic gain was industry. Railroads, telegraphs, machines…oh my! The North also had the advantage of economic stability from the California Gold Rush which aided them to flourish dramatically, though plummeted during the Panic of 1857, which negatively affected the North due to the inflation caused by the gold. Once California was accepted into the Union (as a free state), its abundance of gold deposits held the North on its high horse before the reoccurring panics.…
They had nearly all of the advantages. One thing they had was a greater population that could fight and also free black men, while the south debated over whether they should be able to fight until the war was over. The North also had an established government that was over a hundred years old while the South started with one only a few weeks old. One major factor that the North had was the boom of the Industrial Revolution and lots more money. The only big advantage the south had was Robert E.…
The North had more slaves than the South. The South had a successful slave revolt.…
Most Northerners didn’t hate slavery enough to do anything about it. Sadly, it was an ugly part of American culture and people were content ignoring it so they could go about their lives. They didn’t agree with slavery but they feared that if the slaves were freed they would move north and take jobs away from white families. White people in the North were expanding westward into the territories where they could farm their own land and make money off crops. They did not want the territories to have the southern slave based labor system because it would only benefit a few wealthy people and it would greatly harm the country’s economy to expand slavery.…
While the North lightly interpreted the United States Constitution, and while pursuing industrialization and the expansion of cities, the South remained mostly agricultural. During this period in America, it seemed as if there was a major divide in the country and even completely different cultures had evolved that despised one another. The abolishment of slavery was the mechanism for which the North tried to change the South into a more modern society without the use of slave labor, which eventually caused the Civil War to be fought.…
There was a lower number of salves in the North since the Northern States outlawed slavery. In result, the North relied on the Southern’s cotton production to made money. Cotton shipment overseas made Northern businesses rich, Northern bankers financed land for plantations, Northern insurance companies made profit by insuring slaves since they were considered property; therefore, very valuable. The effect of slavery overtook the South economically and culturally.…
The North also had mountains and rivers which made battle easier for the people who knew the area, and harder for people who did not. Also the north was much wealthier than the south and also had lots of railways to transport troops and supplies for the war. The north also had many…
Few advantages in the South were able to fight on it large homeland, they had best military leaders, they encouraged young males to serve in the army and military school. They even export cotton, rice, sugar cane and tobacco for the money. The North held many advantages over the South, there were more resource and population. The Northern states had a twenty-two million of the…
By the north not fighting on their own land they had the advantage of none of their plantations or factories being damaged. I think that the North’s military leaderships were an advantage. The North’s population was almost triple the size of the South’s population…
The North was able to blockage the South from getting supplies from Europe, which would have been the only way for South to compare with North industry, also the North control the merchant marines. The North had a better economic then the…
The South also known as Slave States, was a slave-based community that shadowed a class-based system. This system involved aristocracy, middle class and then slavery. Many in the South depended on slaves and were adapted to this way of life, making change difficult. Agricultural estate owners had slaves working for them, while those who could not afford to own slaves of their own would work on their own farm. The North, also known as Free States, had more immigrants settling in its areas, economy was on such an up rise that labors were need, but not the labor of slaves. Therefore it had a more industrialized society, most people worked in factories, not follow a class system. A great deal of Northerners opposed the institute of slavery in the South, as the Confederate States were the only region in the world that still legalized the ownership of…
The North and the South had very different views on slavery which only grew stronger and separated the two regions leading up to the Civil War. As the Union gained more land the big question was whether the new land would be considered a slave state or a free state. The South needed slaves to do hard labor on their land to keep the economy growing. The North did not have a need for slaves. They feared that allowing slavery in the North would increase large plantations in the area which would threaten their own growing industrial economy. An underlying issue with the South was the fear that the federal government would take control over the individual states and their rights, especially concerning slavery.…
The North was highly industrialized during the time of the Civil War, being imperative to their victory over the South. Primarily, the…