What were the South's advantages before the US Civil War?

Answer 1

Before the US Civil War, the South was a prosperous area due to the wealth obtained from selling cotton and tobacco. Additionally, the South was politically united in its belief that slavery was the the key to its prosperity and the idea of a possible set of circumstances that threatened slavery was a situation most Southerners agreed upon. During the US Civil War, the South had a number of advantages. One important one was the fact that it did not require the Confederacy to fight a costly offensive war against the North. It had the advantage of simply trying to avoid a devastating series of invasions from the North. It required less troops to fight a defensive war, which for the most part was what the strategy of the South was.