Advantages And Disadvantages Of North And South

The North and South definitely had entire different lifestyle in the 1800s. The North was like industries and mostly paid off the workers, but the South was agricultural and favored on slavery. Over time, each side of the North and South developed their own identities, and both of the side felt their way of lifestyle is better than the other, and wanted their lifestyle to be the identities of the country. The North and the South both side have some advantages and disadvantages. The North had an enormous industrial advantage. Most notably an advanced industrial system able by 1862 to manufacture almost all the North’s own the war materials. The South had only one-ninth the industrial capacity of the Union. The industry is really helpful

It created two new federally chartered corporations; the Union pacific Railroad Company, and the Central Pacific. During the war, they already inferior Confederate railroad system steadily deteriorated and by early 1864 had almost collapsed. Another advantage for North which was there are four times as many people as free people in the North as in the South. There were only 9 million people living in the South including 3.5 million slaves, by contrast the North has 22 million people. Despite the North's greater population, however, the South had an army almost equal in size during the first year of the war. But, the South also had advantages. For the Southern armies, they have some of the same advantages that the United States would have had during the war for independence. They have the home court witch that they were fighting a defensive war on familiar land with local support, and also there’s a real incentive for people to protect their home. The Northern armies were fighting mostly within the South amid hostile local population. They had to maintain long lines of communication. The dependence of the English and French textile industries on American cotton inclined many leaders in those

At the beginning of the 1861, the regular army of the United States consisted of only 16,000 troops, many of them stationed in the West. So the Union, like the Confederacy had to raise its army. This voluntary system of recruitment produced adequate forces only briefly, during the first flush of enthusiasm for the war. By March 1863, Congress was forced to pass a national draft law. Virtually all young adult males were eligible to be drafted, although a man could escape service by hiring someone to go in his place or by paying a fee of $300 to the government. The war caused to cut off Southern planters and producers form Northern markets, and a Union blockade of Confederate ports made the sale of cotton overseas much more difficult. However, the North production of all goods increased during the war. The most important Union military leader was Abraham Lincoln. He ultimately succeeded as commander in chief because he recognized the North;s material advantages, and he realized that the proper objective of his armies was to destroy the Confederate armies ability to fight. The Southern also has a great leadership which is Robert E. Lee. He was a really terrific military leader, who is widely considered the greatest general of his era. Lee served as a senior military adviser to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Once he took command of the main field army in