2. Bigger & stronger
•Ever since the ratification
of the Constitution in
1787, the states of the
North and the states of the
South had been moving in
different directions.
3. Bigger & stronger
•The North (the Union) had
become much more urban and
industrial than the South (the
Confederacy) and its
population was twice as large,
including slaves.
4. Bigger & stronger
•Irish and German
immigrants moving into
Northern cities had helped
to make 9 of the 10 largest
cities in the nation
Northern cities.
5. Bigger & stronger
•The expansion of the railroad
throughout the North had
reduced the cost and the time
needed to ship goods from its
point of production to its
point of sale.
6. Bigger & stronger
•By 1860, 70% of the railroad
track in the country was in the
North, which aided in the
growth of previously small,
outpost cities, such as
Chicago.
8. Bigger & stronger
•Communication also grew
more quickly in the North,
as the telegraph, patented
by Samuel F. B. Morse,
became more and more
commonplace.
9. Bigger & stronger
•The telegraph wires were
set up along railroad lines,
and so the North used the
system of dots and dashes
to communicate far more
effectively than the South.
10. Bigger & stronger
•By 1860, the North had
110,000 factories compared
to 20,000 in the South and
produced over $1.6 billion
worth of goods as opposed to
$155 million.
11. Bigger & stronger
•What this meant was that
vast majority of the wealth
in the country was in the
North and that its economy
was far more diversified
than was that of the South.
12. Bigger & stronger
•The North also had the
superior navy, which they
planned to use as part of
their war strategy, known
as the Anaconda Plan.
13. Bigger & stronger
• The Anaconda Plan, developed
by Winfield Scott, would
blockade the Confederacy by
shutting off water routes (Atlantic
Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and
Mississippi River) to it and
divide it in two.
14. Bigger & stronger
•This would eventually
suffocate the Confederacy,
similar to the way an
anaconda suffocates its
victims, and allow the
Union to control the war.
15. Bigger & stronger
• The problem with it was that it
was a plan that was going to
take time, and given that
Lincoln had asked for 90-day
volunteers after Fort Sumter,
time was not something the
Union had.
18. Some advantages
•There had been a long
tradition of enlisting in the
military, and especially the
military academies, in the
South, and most male
citizens were skilled riders
and knew how to use a rifle.
19. Some advantages
•This meant that far more
of their soldiers and
generals had gone to the
Virginia Military Institute
(VMI) or West Point than
those of the Union.
21. Some advantages
•The other great advantage
that they had was that they
fought primarily a
defensive war, as most of
the battles took place on
Confederate soil.
22. Some advantages
•The Confederates saw the
war as protecting their
way of life and believed
that eventually the Union
would lose the will to
fight.
23. Some advantages
•Fighting on their own land
meant that they knew the
terrain far better than their
Union opponents and
would use that to their
advantage.
