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This 3-page paper focuses on the political and economic reasons why the South lost the U.S. Civil War. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Civil War was primarily won on the battlefield. In a sense, this is correct - ultimately the Union forces vastly outweighed the Confederate forces when it came to wartime. Its
been said that because the North had the manufacturing capabilities, that there really was no contest between the two sides. But there
were also political and economic factors that made the war end favorably in the North, and so disastrously in the South. Author David Surdam in his book, Northern Naval Superiority
and the Economics of the American Civil War points out that the South actually had three very good assets at the start of the war: cotton, cattle and corn (Decredico).
He also points out that the Union blockade helped erode some of these assets, by "disrupting interregional trade and denying the Confederacy badly needed revenue from exporting cotton and other
staple products" (Decredico). Money from the cotton trade, he continues, definitely could have helped the South a lot more when it came to winning the war (Decredico).
Brown and Burdekin, in their article "Turning Points in the U.S. Civil War: A British Perspective" also point out that international economics had a great
deal to do with the fall of the South as well. The belief was that British debt holders that supported the South ended up taking the events of Gettysburg and
Vicksburg to heart, with the result of both those fighting contests ending up creating a downturn. Both of these vents, in the words of the authors, "probably eased Northern fears
and ended Southern hopes of an extended offensive campaign in the North" (p. 12). The falling of Atlanta, expecially, created concerns about the favorable outcome for the South - meaning
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