Why The South Won The American Civil War

In 1861, a conflict between the North (known as the Union) and the South (known as the Confederacy) escalated on the soil of the United States of America. {1}This battle created a war better known as the “American Civil War.” The American Civil War started as a result of many years of differences and debates between the Union and the Confederacy. Slavery was the most important issue of the American Civil War, in addition to deep economic, social, and political differences. {2} Ending in 1865, the American Civil War, will be marked in history as one of the most deadly event in American history, resulting in more than 600,000 deaths. The North and South had different viewpoints on the outcome of the war. The Southerners viewed the war as a war of
Unfortunately, the war was unavoidable due to the social, economic and political gap between the North and South. Due to these circumstances, if the South would have won the war, the U.S. probably would have been divided into two separate countries.[12] The war ended with great losses to both regions. More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other American war combined from the colonial period thru the later phase of the Vietnam War. Apart from the number of deaths and casualties, the significant loss of property and money, the country now needed to work together to rebuild what all was lost and destroyed. Emotionally, it would take long, exhausting years for many people to overcome the consequences and repercussions of the war. The war was followed-up by twelve years of reconstruction, during which the North and South debated the future of African Americans and fought bitter political battles.[13] There was a good outcome of this war, and it was when slavery came to an end as a legal institution. This war did not bring equal rights for African Americans; blacks still had their war to win, but they weren't going to stop until those rights were finally