Causes Of The Civil War

The Civil war began in 1861. It was a war fought between the South and the North. The south was known as the Confederate and the North as the Union. The cause of the war was, because the south and the north had different views on slavery and state rights. The war ended with The South’s surrender. The Union had several advantages over the South which led to their win in 1865. The first advantage the Union had over the Confederate was numbers. “The Federals were very inferior in numbers” (Paris, 2009, book 4). “The Federals” is referring to the Union army. The Union outnumber the confederate by far. The confederate had a population of about 9 million and 3.5 of that was made up of slaves. The North however had a population of 21 million. This gave the North the impression that it will be a quick and easy war, but they were wrong. They still had to put up a good fight.
" Their artillery was far superior to that of the enemy" (Paris, 2018, Book 4) The North's main source of income was through manufacturing industrial products, such as firearms, trains, cloth, boots, and shoes. By 1860, the northern states manufactured 97 percent of the country's firearms (Ushistory.org, 2018). With that being said, this put the confederates at huge disadvantages; yes, they may have already had the firearms, but they need the animation. All the ingredients needed to make gunpowder were imported to the south, so when the Union started the blockade this cause a major problem for the Confederate