What Were The Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Civil War

The Confederate States of America formed in 1861 upon the secession of multiple Southern states from the United States Union. The Confederacy operated under a similar constitution as the Union to the north did. However, many important differences are noticeable in the national document. One of these notable differences is the allowance for slavery in Confederate states. While the southern states permitted slavery within the region, the northern states were able to maintain a greater population throughout the 1860s giving both the Union and the Confederacy advantages and disadvantages during the Civil War. Each government had an established economy. The Union had an industrial advantage which included accessible trading and wage laborers while

Gun manufacturing and transportation came generally from the Northern states giving the Union army slight leverage, but the Confederate army had also used what experience in manufacturing was available to them to produce weapons. At the start of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution enhanced the United States’s economy. Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin created more opportunities for northern manufacturing and southern agriculture. The demand for slaves grew as cotton became easier to plant and harvest on large southern plantations. With that cotton, northern textile mills were able to transform cotton imports into thread and cloth exports. By 1860, the United States economy had grown ten times larger than fifty years prior. However, upon the secession of the southern states, the South remained largely dependent on international commerce and was competing heavily in the market for cotton. As the cotton market was highly competitive, the Southern states made an attempt at manufacturing the cotton harvested on the plantations with more slaves, but this proved to be less productive than the North’s textile production. Due to the North’s prosperous manufacturing and trading, populations grew in major cities and along waterways or railways because it “invited competition at home and abroad, encourages immigration, [and] conceding to the foreigners”

The proclamation was first announced September 22nd, 1862 by Abraham Lincoln, but it did not take effect until Lincoln delivered the proclamation for a second time on January 1st, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves within the Confederate states. In addition to freeing slaves from the states in rebellion, it also allowed freed African Americans to join the United States military. The Union and the Confederacy were both affected by the Emancipation Proclamation in different ways. For the Confederacy, many slaves were lost on plantations once they were freed. This made it especially difficult for those men who entered the military and left their plantations in the hands of their families and slaves. As Lincoln had stated in the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), the government was to “recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons” freed by the decree meaning that all freed African Americans were to be recognized as American citizens since they were not recognized as such before. While recently free African Americans were able to remain in the South, many migrated to the North to begin a new life. As many left plantations in the South, both the Confederate army and the Union army gained numerous amounts of freed African Americans on the battle field. The Union gained more African Americans than the