What were the advantages the North had over the South during the Civil War?

Answer 1

Hands down, better manufacturing. All the industry was in the North. If it wasn't for that the South might have won. Thanks to the North's superior industry, union troops always had more weapons and ammo then the South. Aslo, due to the fact that they produced most of the countries food, the Union soldiers didn't have to march on empty stomachs nearly as often as the Confederate troops. So, when you think about it, the North's army had more guns, ammo, and food then the South's army. That can be very helpful when the war goes on for 4 years. Also the North had the advantage of greater numbers of fighting men. As mentioned earlier, the North had more weapons and ammunition, but when the Confederates won a battle they would retrieve US arms and were fully equipped with the latest in weaponry,the disadvantage they had was not enough men to use them. Added to this, the Union eventually made it illegal for the Confederate states to retain their slaves as property, thus making it difficult to make the former slaves fight for the confederacy, along with freeing members of the Union states from former laws of having to return escaped slaves to their so-called owners. This, along with daily desertions from the Confederate forces depleted their sources of fighting men even further. The South never stood a chance, it was always a war that they would lose. Perhaps another advantage Northerners had was their mindset, they did not have the numbers of slaves and former slaves living among them that people living in the southern states did, so Northerners didn't have the fear of being overrun by, what the Southerners considered, inferior primitive people who were incapable of competency. The North were free of these fears and instead of keeping the slaves subjugated, no longer needing a manual workforce themselves, but also wanting to be rid of the commercial competition from the South's cheap labour force, set about freeing the slaves and at the same time removing the commercial threat that the South posed.

Answer 2

Much bigger population from which to recruit armies.

Traditional advantage in artillery, including new rifled cannon

Industrial capability - access to all kinds of war-supplies

More railroad mileage - whole armies could move by train

Big enough navy to blockade Southern coast

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Answer 3

The advantages in resources of the North during the US Civil War are the following:

1. The North had an industrial economy and also farmlands that supplied the Union forces with food; and

2. The North had a large advantage in population which helped to provide a large army.

Answer 4

The North had more weapons than the South. There were also more soldiers,because most of the population in the South were slaves,and slaves couldn't fight in the war.