what were some of the strengths and weaknesses of the union and confederacy?
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They Union had to conquer a large amount of land, which is difficult. The Union also had to conquer foreign land. The Confederate strengths were that they had to defend. ... Some Confederate weaknesses were that they had few factories making it difficult to produce weapons.
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Shay's Rebellion showed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation. When the central government couldn't put down the rebellion, the first stirrings of federalism began to gather strength. The British, of course, did not recognize the Declaration and continued to send troops to contain the rebellion.
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Abstract. For years, textbook authors have contended that economic difference between North and South was the primary cause of the Civil War. The northern economy relied on manufacturing and the agricultural southern economy depended on the production of cotton.
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Jefferson Davis was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
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After the election of Abraham Lincoln, Southern Democrats led the charge to secede from the Union and establish the Confederate States. The United States Congress was dominated by Republicans, save for Andrew Johnson of Tennessee, the only senator from a state in rebellion to reject secession.
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The South did have an important geographic disadvantage. If the Union could control the Mississippi River, it could split the Confederacy in two. based economy could not support a long war. It had few factories to produce guns and other military supplies.
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The American Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America, a collection of eleven southern states that left the Union in 1860 and 1861.
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The civil war was fought between the Union states (Northern states) and the states of the Confederacy (Southern states).
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Some Confederate weaknesses were that they had few factories making it difficult to produce weapons. They also did not have many railroads making it harder to travel and transport troops and supplies.
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During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America, specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states and 5 border states that supported it.
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During the American Civil War, the Union forces of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant engaged the Confederate troops of General Robert E. Lee at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia.
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The primary catalyst for secession was slavery, especially Southern political leaders' resistance to attempts by Northern antislavery political forces to block the expansion of slavery into the western territories. Slave life went through great changes, as the South saw Union Armies take control of broad areas of land.
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Despite the North's greater population, however, the South had an army almost equal in size during the first year of the war. The North had an enormous industrial advantage as well. At the beginning of the war, the Confederacy had only one-ninth the industrial capacity of the Union. But that statistic was misleading.
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['Both have complex ethnic composition of different linguistic groups.', 'ln both countries this complex ethnic composition caused disputes among communities and led to civil war.', 'both suffered from majoritarianism.']
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Confederate States of America, also called Confederacy, in the American Civil War, the government of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860–61, carrying on all the affairs of a separate government and conducting a major war until defeated in the spring of 1865.
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The phrase used to summarize the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation is “A Weak Central (Federal) Government Where the States had Too Much Power.” c.
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In the context of the American Civil War, the Union is sometimes referred to as "the North", both then and now, as opposed to the Confederacy, which was "the South".