Sunday, April 22, 2012

Oh the South had a chance.....

Well...first things first at the beginning of the war the nation had pretty much been divided into halves. Halves are always equal and in this case the North and the South had almost equal advantages. The North's advantages summed up into one sentence were more money, more supplies, more blockading power more stable economy and a bigger army. All of these advantages were ones that helped in war, but at that time the South hadn't known that. The south had equal advantages such as better morale, better generals, maybe foreign support, knowledge of the land and tactics from the Revolutionary War. The reason I think that the North one though was because they had a higher intensity of advantages. What I mean by that is that for example: The didn't just have a bigger army they easily outnumbered the south 3 to 1. The south couldn't calculate what we can now and so to them it seemed like equal advantages and disadvantages. Everything aside i think that the South was not foolish for going to war against the North.

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  1. I agree because the south had a reason to fight whereas the north did not. There morale was greater but since the north had way more resources than the south they were able to win.

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