Civil War : Why did the North Win?

Question

I'm trying to find main sociological reasons behind the North's defeat of the South.

Answer 1

After his victory at Vicksburg, U.S. Grant was invited to the White House to confer with Lincoln.  The President had created a new Army rank of "General of the Army" (four stars) and had promoted Grant to it.  Lincoln asked Grant how to win the war.  

Grant said that the only way to win was to "pay the butcher's bill."  He proposed that a campaign where the North was prepared to lose 4-to-1 ratio of casualties would guarantee a win.   Four Federal soldiers would die for every Confederate, four Federals wounded for every Confederate, etc.  

The society of the North could absorb these terrible losses and replace every dead or wounded soldier many times over, because the northern cities teemed with young men, but the South could not.  Virtually every man who could be in uniform in the South already was.  Every Confederate that died could never be replaced, so eventually, the South would run out of men.  This is called a "war of attrition."  It depleted the South of a generation of men.

Answer 2

The North had all of the industry, and a larger population. They could field more soldiers and supply them with more and better weapons. The South was an agrarian society, with little or no industry, and a smaller rural population, that was ill equipped to fight a long war. By the end of the Civil War there were a great many southern soldiers that didn't even have shoes, or bullets to fight with.

Answer 3

The south relied too much on Jesus, a false idol

Answer 4

better resources, better organization,m some of the better leaders, more money.

it was really all in their favor from the start

Answer 5

All good answers. Yes they had more industry. Yes, they cut the South off from the sea. They also were able to gain  control of most of the railroads by not allowing the South to ship men and weapons but their biggest motivation was to free the slaves and give them a life with out being owned and sold like cattle.

This is the reason that brothers killed brothers and states were split according to Mason Dixon line. which was the dividing point of the states both free or slavery respectably  The South did not want slavery.to end. To this day there are places in the South that still have animosity towards the people that come from the North.

Answer 6

better factories ; more personnel; more railroads; more resources; more food and after January 1, 1863, believed they were fighting for the cause of righteousness and destruction of slavery which swayed the total focus for the North

Answer 7

The north had more money, vastly more population and almost all of the manufacturing. The fact that the south kept slavery as an institution kept countries like England and others from overtly supporting them.

Answer 8

Sociology gots hardly nuthin to do wit it.  Military Strategy and Tactics (which are not the same thing) caused the outcome.

The Northern military was able to cut off the South from the sea (naval blockade), the rest of North America (the Mississippi), and then began to cut away at the southern territory (Sherman's March to the Sea, etc.)  Unable to maneuver effectively or unite for a major offensive, the elements of the Confederate Army were whittled away piecemeal.

Answer 9

The society was more industrialized, therefore having a larger population from which to draw; not even counting that immigrants from Europe went to the major cities (which were in the North).  The larger industrial base made production of war goods easier, and enabled the North to blockade the South.

Not to mention that the South had to invest resources in keeping a large segment of their population down, much like what sapped n**i Germany's strength in WW2.

Answer 10

Which civil war? English? Spanish? French? Russian?

Answer 11

Population (especially since the south didn't let the blacks fight [I think in till later] and blacks made up a large # of the pop.)

Industrial/Manufacturing

Money