The document discusses some of the key reasons why the North was ultimately victorious over the South in the American Civil War. The North had significant advantages in population, industry, transportation, and naval power. While the South had some advantages in generals and a defensive strategy, the North had greater resources and a united front around the goals of preserving the Union and abolishing slavery. Pivotal battles like Antietam and Gettysburg turned the tide in the North's favor, and the North's greater population and industrial capacity allowed it to wage a war of attrition that exhausted the South over time.

1. A Nation at War

2. Why did the North win?

3. NORTHERN
ADVANTAGES?

4. population

5. industry

8. transportation

10. navy

12. SOUTHERN
ADVANTAGES?

13. A defensive war

14. better generals

15. Robert E. Lee & “Stonewall” Jackson

16. versus

17. Gen. George B. McClellan

20. Gen. George B. McClellan
“nothing more than
a well-meaning
baboon”, a
“gorilla”, and
“ever unworthy
of...his high
position.”

21. “If General McClellan
does not want to use
the army, I would like to
borrow it for a time.”

22. Ulysses S. Grant & William T. Sherman

23. CONCRETE
OBJECTIVES

26. vs.
IDEALS

27. “Union”

28. “anti-Slavery”

29. united & determined

30. 20%

31. FOREIGN
OPINION

34. N
S

35. OPPOSITION TO LINCOLN

37. “Copperheads”
(Peace Democrats)

38. Clement Vallandigham
“Peace Democrat”

39. GENERAL
ORDER
#38
“The habit of declaring sympathy for
the enemy will not be allowed in this
department. Persons committing such
offenses will be at once arrested with
a view of being tried. . .or sent
beyond our lines into the lines of their
friends. It must be understood that
treason, expressed or implied, will not
be tolerated in this department.”

41. Election of 1864

44. 45%

45. Why did the North win?

60. NEUTRAL

61. (1) South

65. European WC

67. 1862 1863

69. “[A]ll persons held as slaves within any
State or designated part of a State, the
people whereof shall then be in rebellion
against the United States, shall be then,
thenceforward, and forever free…”

71. Trent Affair

72. PIVOTAL BATTLES

73. Bull Run, 1861; VA

74. Antietam, 1862; MD

75. Gettysburg, 1863; PA

76. population

77. war of attrition