The American Civil War: Why the South lost‚ and the North won Several reasons exist as to why the South (The Confederate States of America) lost to the North (The Union/The United States). However‚ was it due to the South’s failings‚ or simply that the North was superior? 1. Population Population wise‚ the North had a considerable advantage over the South. Being as how Slavery was abolished‚ and African Americans were allowed to join the Armed Forces‚ this also gave the United States a boost.
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The South began the civil war with a bleak outset‚ their only hope being their skilled generals and the stance of a defensive war‚ but despite what historians may say it was the North that underestimated the South. Prior to the start of the war the obvious winner would be the North for they held the most ascendancy in the splitting nation. The North contained seventy percent of the country’s railroads which gave them the lead in the swiftness to travel. Troops‚ supplies‚ and weapons could be
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wondered what it was like to be in the Civil War? Or how strong or weak the South and North were? Well I explain all of this in my essay. The South had very many strengths including: Guerilla Warfare‚ good generals‚ unified groups‚ skilled soldiers‚ and the home field advantage .Guerilla Warfare was a “hit and run” tactic that the confederacy used as an attack. For our generals we had General Ulysses Grant. He made the North surrender and helped us win the war. Their army was very unified or together
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The north and the south had many differences before the Civil war. With the climate‚ economy‚ culture‚ transportation‚ and more. There were many things that made the south different than the north one of the main differences between the South and the North was that the South was slave states and the North was free states. Climate/Geography To start off with‚ the south climate was warm and sunny. The South also have humid summers mild winters and heavy rainfall. While the South was good for farming
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HIS 120 The post-Civil War South has been called the “New South.” In what ways did it succeed in reinventing itself? In what ways did it fail? After the war‚ the South was devastated and it was going to take a lot of money and a lot of rebuilding for it to be self-sufficient again. It financially and architecturally succeeded in reinventing itself and in the thirty five years following the war‚ Southern iron‚ steel and textile industries emerged‚ with Railroads leading the South’s industrial
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the South before the Civil War and the South after the Civil war. The old South and the new South had some similarities. One of the similarities was that the attitudes of many white southerners didn’t change regarding African-Americans and support for certain policies. Before the Civil War‚ many southerners supported slavery‚ nullification‚ states’ rights‚ and secession. After the Civil War‚ the southerners tried to elect many of the same representatives to Congress who served before the Civil War
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contentious process of reconstructing the Union and the readmission of the Confederate States‚ the American Civil War has filled more pages of scholarly discourse than any other event in U.S. history (1). Amongst the endless topics to which these volumes are devoted‚ no topic is more debated‚ chronicled and studied than the various causes that lead to the bloodiest conflict in American history‚ and its effects on this country’s future. As the 19th century rapidly progressed toward internal conflict in the
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Civil war From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search For other uses‚ see civil war (disambiguation). See list of civil wars for individual examples. A civil war is a war in which parties within the same culture‚ society or nationality fight for political power or control of an area. Some civil wars are also categorized as revolutions when major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of the conflict. An insurgency‚ whether successful or not‚ is likely to be classified
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2013 North and South: War on the Korean Peninsula War on the Korean Peninsula is always a possibility. While most experts agree that “ Korean War II” is not imminent‚ the actions of the new North Korean leader‚ Kim Jong Un‚ lead the United States to ponder the possibility of another Korean War. Andrew Salmon shows in his article “ Korean nightmare: Experts ponder potential conflict” the devastating loss of life on both sides‚ the epic battle that would take place between the North‚ South
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northern society in the decades leading up to the Civil War? Before the war there were great changes that occurred in the United States. The North was rapidly industrializing that created a separation between the North and the agricultural South. Both the North and South did have some similarities‚ but the differences between the North and South gradually lead to the Civil War. There were many similarities between The North and South. The North and South did have a similar political system of states
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