Why did the south won the Civil War?

Answer 1

Answer Primarily because the north was more industrialized and had access to better weapons and supplies. The South had almost no industry of their own and therefore had difficulty as an independent nation. The North's military was also better trained than the South's. Had the South not been supported by European nations, it would not have even had a chance.

Not true. There was almost zero support from Europe, to begin with. As for the military, the northern states had more men, nearly two to one, but the southern generals were overall better, and the soldiers were better at riding and shooting. They won many battles through sheer courage and leadership.

Answer 2

food shortages and riots had been spreading across the south while the north was growing with big industries
The north had overwhelming superiority in manpower and manufacturing capacity. The south was able to utilize their superior generalship and knowledge of local terrain to prolong the war as long as it did. Even without Grant's tenacity in command, the north would probably have won eventually, given enough time, due to the factors mentioned previously. The Anaconda Plan strategy remained essentially unchanged since Scott devised it in the first days of the war.

Answer 3

Because Lincoln eventually learned how to choose and use the best Generals, which Jefferson Davis never did.

When Grant was promoted General-in-Chief, he ended the system of prisoner-exchange, so the Confederates were bound to run out of manpower.

Answer 4

There are two ways to answer this question: (1) the changing strategic situation throughout the war, or (2) the cold hard economic facts.

(1) The Confederate Armies began the Civil War with far superior leadership, and made a far better showing in the war's early battles. This created the illusion that they might have a chance of winning the war, or at least creating enough of a continuing threat to Washington DC to force a treaty with terms favorable to the Confederacy.

The fortunes of the two adversaries began to change in July 1863 when Gen Robert E Lee brought the majority of his army into the Union territory of southern Pennsylvania. Lee's forces captured the town of Gettysburg, but Union forces concentrated on high ground just south of the town in a superior strategic position. Gen Winfield S Hancock was sent to assume command of the small force there while Commanding General George G Meade was slowly moving a huge army of over 90,000 Union soldiers to face Lee's roughly 70,000 Confederates. President Lincoln had started finding better generals.

Faced with a superior enemy force in a superior strategic position, Lee still chose to fight rather than quickly move his army back to Virginia. Both sides sustained roughly equal casualties of about 23,000 each, but the loss was devastating for Lee's smaller army and put him at a disadvantage for the rest of the war.

When President Lincoln put General Ulysses S Grant in charge of the Union's main forces, Grant brutally pursued Lee's army, leaving Lee with fewer and fewer men until surrender was the only reasonable option.

(2) The Confederate States never had much of a chance of winning the Civil War, short of a miraculous continuation of the Union ineptness at the War's beginning. The Union had access to more men, more money, and more manufactuing capability (i.e. weapons and supplies) than the Cenfederacy could ever realistically match.Confederate politicians undertook the war in hopes that they would receive assistance from Great Britain; when that didn't happen, the Confederates' odds of victory sank to zero. One of the nation's great tragedies is that Confederate leaders didn't admit to their inferior economic position and seek a treaty to end the war before the death of so many tens of thousands of men from battle and disease.

Answer 5

"the south never stood a chance"president Lincoln said this becausethe south had big challenges to face.including economic structure (the south's economy was based upon free labor)and the south did not manufacture much, mainly cotton and corn.when they tried to use what little advantage they had towards foreign relations, they actually overestimated themselves and ending up ruining and weakening the British demand for cotton.

also a disadvantage was the fact that the ratio of slaves to "citizens" in the south was 1 to 7. while trying to keep the northerners suppressed, the south also faced the challenge of keeping pissed off slaves from trying to escape at the same time.

another severe disadvantage was the social structure in the south.slavery only benefitted the one tenth of the richest southerners who were at the top of the social hierarchy. these were the only people who could afford slavery.and this was at the price of everyone else.since slavery made it free to produce items that took much more labor for non-slave owners to produce, making it not wortth a war to the rest of the population.

Answer 6

There are a number of reasons that caused the South to lose the US Civil War. If narrowed down to the two most significant ones, certainly the fact that the Union had the advantage of a larger pool of recruits for most of the battles and could afford casualties much better than the South could.Another major reason the South lost the war was that the large border slave states did not join the Confederacy. The addition of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland would have changed the course of the war These states would have supplied manpower and industry to the Southern cause.

In addition to that, Washington DC would have been evacuated and the Union's new capital may have moved to the safety of New York City.

Mary;and's city of Baltimore would have given the South a good port. Missouri would have prevented the Union to control the Mississippi River.

Answer 7

The South didn't win because they had surrendered to the North.The North didn't give up, the south were the ones who gave up.

Answer 8

The South lost the Civil War. The Union was preserved.