history paper
Colton Bauserman
Mr. Huggins
U.S. History
11/21/2014
The South's Disadvantage in the Civil War
The greatest battle in our nation’s history was the Civil War. The Civil war was a very complicated war but most people just say that the North won just because they were better. Well that’s not all the accurate. The Confederacy lost this was because of a few disadvantages not because they were inferior to the Union. This Disadvantages were, the Confederacy had little time to prepare for a war of such importance, the troops of the south found themselves losing faith and fighting for a lost cause, a lack of leadership by their President, Jefferson Davis, innovations of weapons making easier for anyone to be accurate, lack of competent generals for the Confederacy, the Confederacies lack of an infrastructure, and the losing the battle of Gettysburg. There are more things but these played a major role in the outcome of the great Civil War.
A brief summary of the war before this essay goes into detail about it. This started when in 1861 The United States was turned into a divided country because of the two sides having very different views on certain topics. This war started because the north wanted to re-unite the union. Even though the south technically started the war the north are the ones to blame for the start of the war because they were aggravating the south and reinforcing forts in the south. The north and the south had different views for certain things and one of these things what shape would the new west take. Another issue that the two sides argued about was the issue on slavery in the new territories. This then lead to compromise after compromise. The north thought that slavery should be illegal while the south thought I should be the states discussion not the governments. The compromises worked for a while until a Supreme Court ruling that said that you cannot take slavery away from people in the territories. This caused an outrage and all the compromises
Mr. Huggins
U.S. History
11/21/2014
The South's Disadvantage in the Civil War
The greatest battle in our nation’s history was the Civil War. The Civil war was a very complicated war but most people just say that the North won just because they were better. Well that’s not all the accurate. The Confederacy lost this was because of a few disadvantages not because they were inferior to the Union. This Disadvantages were, the Confederacy had little time to prepare for a war of such importance, the troops of the south found themselves losing faith and fighting for a lost cause, a lack of leadership by their President, Jefferson Davis, innovations of weapons making easier for anyone to be accurate, lack of competent generals for the Confederacy, the Confederacies lack of an infrastructure, and the losing the battle of Gettysburg. There are more things but these played a major role in the outcome of the great Civil War.
A brief summary of the war before this essay goes into detail about it. This started when in 1861 The United States was turned into a divided country because of the two sides having very different views on certain topics. This war started because the north wanted to re-unite the union. Even though the south technically started the war the north are the ones to blame for the start of the war because they were aggravating the south and reinforcing forts in the south. The north and the south had different views for certain things and one of these things what shape would the new west take. Another issue that the two sides argued about was the issue on slavery in the new territories. This then lead to compromise after compromise. The north thought that slavery should be illegal while the south thought I should be the states discussion not the governments. The compromises worked for a while until a Supreme Court ruling that said that you cannot take slavery away from people in the territories. This caused an outrage and all the compromises