The document summarizes the key reasons for the North's victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. It explains that the Confederacy was inherently weaker from the start due to its primarily agricultural economy and lack of industrial capacity and population compared to the North. Additionally, the South suffered from poor military and political leadership exemplified by Jefferson Davis, inadequate infrastructure and communication networks, shortages of food and supplies, and declining troop morale over the four-year war. Ultimately, the North's vast numerical and industrial superiority overpowered the South, despite Confederate General Robert E. Lee's tactical brilliance prolonging the war for years.

1. The End of the Civil
War
“It made us an ‘is’”
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2. Why the North
Won
Confederacy was weak to begin
with
Mostly agricultural
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3. Why the North
Won
Poor political and military
leadership
Davis was no Lincoln
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4. Why the North
Won
Lacked communication
capacity
Lacked infrastructure
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6. Why the North
Won
Did not have
population or
resources of North
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8. Why the North
Won
Food shortages
Morale problems
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9. Why the North
Won
Yet, the South still
persevered for four years,
giving the North a run for
its money.
How?
Robert E. Lee
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10. Robert E. Lee, the Confederate General who surrendered
to Grant in 1865 put it well:
“After four years of arduous service marked by
unsurpassed courage and fortitude, the Army of Northern
Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming
numbers and resources.”
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11. Why the North Won
What do the historians
mean in their comments
in the first clip from Ken
Burns’s Civil War?
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12. Who Won the War?
Why does Barbara Fields
say slaves won and lost in
the Civil War?
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13. “I think what we need to remember, most of all, is that the Civil War is not over until we,
today, have done our part in fighting it, as well as understanding what happened when the
Civil War generation fought it. William Faulkner said once that history is not "was" it's "is."
And what we need to remember about the Civil War is that the Civil War is in the present
as well as the past. The generation that fought the war, the generation that argued over the
definition of the war, the generation that had to pay the price in blood, that had to pay the
price in blasted hopes and a lost future, also established a standard that will not mean
anything until we have finished the work.You can say there's no such thing as slavery, we're
all citizens. But if we're all citizens, then we have a task to do to make sure that that too is
not a joke. If some citizens live in houses and others live on the street, the Civil War is still
going on. It's still to be fought and regrettably, it can still be lost.”
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