Why did the north beat the south in the American Civil War?

Answer 1

they were equal nations and the north had horrible generals and bad morale while the south had General Lee who won several brilliant battles against the north. Also while Lee could defend the south he could never gain the momentom while attacking the north.

Answer 2

It could have something to do with greater numbers of troops. Irish immigrants landed in the ports in the North and then were conscripted into the Union Army. The North had a larger industrial inferstructure and were technicaly better off than the more agracultral South.

Answer 3

Bigger population - able to absorb casualties.

Successful blockade - the South could not import or export.

Industrial manufacturing power - able to make all kinds of war supplies.

Better President - Lincoln was far more talented than Davis.

Answer 4

The South took longer to rebuild because a majority of the war was fought on Southern lands and because of the highly destructive march by Sherman through Georgia in which the land was burned completely upsetting the economy of the South.

Answer 5

1. The North had more people - from which a larger army could be fielded.
2. The North had more industrial capacity - which could be used to produce materials to supply the troops.
3. The North had a much larger Navy which was employed to blockade the South and choke off external support.
4. Superior naval resources also allowed the North to split the Confederacy by taking control of the entire Mississippi
5. Foreign support - which the South needed in order to sustain the fight - never came. Southern support of slavery inhibited foreign governments from intervening to support the South (supporting slavery had become politically distasteful in most of the more powerful nations of Europe). The support that the South had assumed would come in order to maintain shipments of Southern cotton did not materialize because Europe had a surplus of cotton - especially with the increased production of Egyptian cotton which was actually slightly superior to Southern cotton from many purposes.
6. Several key Confederate leaders were lost in battle at key junctures of the war. At the outset the South had significantly more experienced and talented military leadership that the North - but that advantage was lost as the war dragged on an those leaders were killed, thus the South suffered more heavily that the North not only in attrition of normal troops - but even more so from attrition of leaders.

Answer 6

There were several reasons, but they were all related to the fact that the North had become industrial while the South stayed agricultural.

Answer 7

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