Why Did The North Win The Civil War Essay

The Civil War, one of the most important events in history, was a lucky win for the Union as the South and North both had key advantages against one another, but some of the events that led to the North winning were; Battle of Antietam: The Union gained a victory against the South in the single day, bloodiest battle and it boosted war morale, something the North originally lacked. This also led to Britain pulling its military aid from the Confederacy, which hurt the South because they needed foreign help to win the war overall. Transportation Revolution in the North: The Transportation Revolution globalized the use of roads, steamboats, canals, and railroads to transport goods throughout the United States and foreign countries. This helped

Union control of the Mississippi River gave them the ability to split the Confederacy. With the South split into two, the flow of supplies and communication between Confederate states decreased. Battle of Gettysburg: This battle was the turning point that put the war into the favor of the Union and influenced the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Appomattox Court House. The surrender of a southern general was key to the North’s victory because the South had a better military guidance. The Union’s win at Gettysburg led Lincoln to write the Gettysburg Address to show his opinion about wanting to achieve human equality. Grant and Sherman’s War Strategies: General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union created a war strategy called the Anaconda Plan. It was never actually authorized by Congress to use but it would've been used to surround, or “suffocate”, the South. General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union, credited with the war strategy of total war, led a march, called the “March to the Sea”, from Atlanta to Georgia from November 15 to December 21, 1864, destroying everything in his path and leaving the South in ruins. It was meant to demoralize the South and led to their fall which helped the North win the war

They had the idea of “forty acres and a mule”, which gave new freed slave families forty acres of land and a mule so they had property under their name, but their biggest success was education, creating public school systems for all children. The Freedmen’s Bureau’s lasting impact on Reconstruction was the educational rights to blacks. Presidential Reconstruction: The Lincoln plan and Johnson plan dealt with how to readmit Confederate states that seceded from the Union. Lincoln’s plan called for ten percent of a southern states population to vote loyalty to the Union to be readmitted. Johnson adopted some of the same ideas as Lincoln, but when he was president, Radical Republicans in Congress wanted to pass the Wade-Davis Bill, saying fifty percent of a southern states population had to vote loyalty to the Union before being readmitted. Black Codes: Black codes were passed under Johnson’s plan because it was too lenient to the South. These laws intended to restrict newly freed blacks’ rights and have them work for low wages. Black Codes were just one of the many events that tried to stop African Americans from still having equal rights, or just any rights at all, as any white man, which the Reconstruction Era was meant to