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Reasons as to why the North won the Civil War
When the election of 1860 had ended and the strong and able-bodied Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States a nation began to turn itself. It seemed that the culmination of all the compromise wrought by Henry Clay came crashing down and the need to preserve the fragile balance between the satisfactions of the agrarian south and the contentment of the industrialized north seemed to be irrelevant. ... The Civil War was a bloody and gruesome battle fought by two different parties for vary different reasons. The North fighting to reconnect the currently shattered Union reuniting all states once again into the United States. ... And yet, as the blood of millions of soldiers spilled on such sites as Bull Run in Virginia, Fredericksburg, Mississippi and the gruesome Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where tens of thousands of soldiers gave their lives the war went on for many years. One looks back and wonders why did the North end up in victory and not the South? ...
Economically the North had more resources to tap into then the South. The North produced more iron and coal production, more factories, more firearms, and of course more people to access then the South. In fact their total population as compared with the South was two to one and their wealth was three to one giving the North a distinct advantage if their was a long war. Such economic prowess of the North was in part to the industrialized nature of Northern lifestyles. The North had more factories and more natural resources to use that enabled it to produce more money and better equipment for its troops. In fact most of the effects brought about by the Industrial revolution were seen in the North as opposed to the South, which could especially be seen in reference to the union of Industry and agriculture. Even though the mechanization of the agriculture before the Civil War, it did not really become of importance until the need for labor-saving machinery increased while the Civil War was underway. ... This allowed the North to provide ample food supplies to its soldiers on a regular basis. ... As the war progressed it became apparent that the Southern government did not have sufficient means to provide an adequate supply to both combatants and non-combatants alike.
Approximate Word count = 1949
Approximate Pages = 7.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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