Northern VS Southern Advantages

Northern advantages:

• More technology
• More railroads (movement was quicker)
• Balance between farming and industry
• Twice as many factories (more guns, ammunition, shoes)
• More money in the bank
• Good government, army and navy
• 2/3 of the nation's population was in the North (more people in the army)

Southern advantages:

• Militiary schools were in the South (trained generals sided with the South
• The Southerners were on the defensive on their land
• Their beliefs also guided them.