why did the north won

History tells us that the Northern states won the Civil War that challenged a new young nation. A nation that was divided on the moral issue of slavery, where slave owner viewed slaves as nothing more than just “property”. It was this issue that the abolitionists from the North were trying to fight against. Abolitionist believed that no human being could “own” another without having any repercussion on the matter. The election of Abraham Lincoln only made matters worse for the southern states, as these were aware that republican candidates favored abolitionists and some encouraged their ideas to make slavery illegitimate. But if we are going to talk about who won the Civil War, between the Confederate and Union States, it can definitely be said that the Union won the war, and here are some reasons why.

The Confederate states relied much upon the use of slavery, as this was part of their daily life and slavery was the force behind the economic stability of the South. While this was true for the South, the North on the other hand didn’t rely on such a system, hence it favored the abolition of the practice of having slaves and to treat them as “property”. When the war came knocking at the door, the North had more man power than the South, even though the men who were fighting for the southern states had more experience in military warfare the Union’s men outnumbered the south with more than double the amount of people fighting for the Confederate states, roughly speaking about two million men fought for the Union (Goldfield, 412). Also ex-slaves fought for the Union as they believed the institution of slavery was morally wrong, and took up arms and joined the Union’s army to fight against those who oppressed them before and finish ...

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...dfield, 423). The Emancipation Proclamation made slavery illegal, this measure kept the British at bay, as it prevented them from helping the Confederate states, as it would make them look like if they were a nation that was in favor of slavery.

If the Union lacked in military experience during the Civil War, it certainly made up for the resources it had in stock and the diplomacy it use to stop and bring the confederacy to a halt. The Union possessed more factories were goods, clothing, weaponry and other items were being produced to be used in the war, something the southern states lacked as it affected them in the long run. The Union sealed the southern states fate with the Emancipation Proclamation, as the slave population begun to flee to the North, and so the driving economic force of the south begun to crumble and eventually succumbed to its wounds and fell.