ECONOMY:

SOUTH

• No factories to produce guns or ammunition
• Its railroads were small and not interconnected
• Hard for the South to move food, weapons and men quickly
• Focused on cash crops like tobacco and cotton
• Did not produce enough food to feed the southern population

ECONOMY:

NORTH

• Enough food and enough factories to make weapons for all of its soldiers
• Extensive rail network that could transport men and weapons rapidly
• Material and financial advantages
• Population that was more than twice that of the South

GEOGRAPHY:

SOUTH

• In January it has mild days and cool nights
• Mountains, sub-tropical forests, and great farming lands
• Rainfalls, and they’re rivers are slow and easy to navigate
• Towns by the river, short winters and long summers
• Agriculturally based, which required slave labor

GEOGRAPHY:

NORTH

• Vast forests and they’re land wasn’t as productive for farming as the south
• Winters were long cold and snowy
• Fast rivers, which made rivers difficult to navigate and also very rocky
• Made textiles, lumber, furs, mining, and shipping there way of life
• Which led to a very diverse economy