For traveling troops down all their railroad tracks were exactly three feet apart. The south's railroads were all messed up and uneven. The ones in Virginia were different from the ones in Georgia. So, the north could just take one train to the battle while the south had to switch trains every once in a while. The population of the North was quite more then the south. The north was mostly factories. They could make weapons quicker then the south could trade with other countries.
The south still had advantages though. Better leadership was found there. Robert E. Lee turned down Lincoln's offer of being general for the union. Also "Stonewall" Jackson was a part of the confederacy.
The North had a larger population, so it could have more people to volunteer to be soldiers. Also, it had more industry, railroads and money, so they could supply, feed and move its army. Also, it had shipyards far enough away from harm to build a large navy. The South had to pay Great Britain in many situations to build warships for them.
During the first part of the 1800's the North and the South grew in different ways. In the North, cities were centers of wealth and manufacturing. There were many skilled workers. In the South there was not much manufacturing. There were not many skilled workers. Most of the people were farmers. Money came from plantation crops, like cotton, rice, sugar cane and tobacco. Slaves did most of the work on the plantations. During the Civil War the North and the South had some advantages that were helpful to their part of the country. The North produced three-fourths of the nation's wealth. They had a bigger army including thousands of black soldiers. The North also had better equipment and supplies to fight the war. The South had some advantages too. Most of the war was fought on Southern territory so soldiers did not have to travel so far. The South had better generals. Like Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. The South also grew cotton, which Europe needed.
The North had several large advantage over the South during the US Civil War. Two were outstanding advantages. The North had a large manufacturing base to produce war supplies from firearms to clothing. The North also had a larger population from which to field their armies. One historian has calculated that the North's manpower advantage expressed as a ratio was 5 to 2 in favor of the North.
The north had more advantages, the south had more allies.
The easiest anwser is that the North had technology, shear number of troops, and industry on their side. The South had much better generals, a more willingness to fight, and that the war was fought in their back yard
With the exception of the air war over the north, the ground war occurred in southern territory. The north invaded the south, the south didn't invade the north.
In the American Civil War, the North had many advantages over the south. The North had industry, more factories, meaning more production of armaments. It also had more men, more soldiers, along with more resources.
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The Union had more factories to make supplies, since the South's economy relied on cotton. The North also had a larger population. The South's advantages included fighting a war on their own grounds.
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The north was industrialized. The south was an agricultural region.
The south was not as powerful as the north. The north had more advantages than the south. The south had less transportation and not as many weapons.
The north had more advantages, the south had more allies.
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Most advantages, economic and otherwise, favored the North
They were "the Civil War". The North and the South were going against each other. They were fighting against slavery (the North). And the South wanted slavery.
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The North had the factories capable of making supplies and equipment for war.
Simply, it could manufacture all manner of war-supplies, including the latest rifle-barrelled artillery, while the agricultural South was increasingly unable to import anything, because of the Unon Naval blockade.