Which factor provided a military advantage during the US Civil War?

Which factor provided a military advantage during the US Civil War?

One major factor that was an advantage for the south was the “home field advantage”. Because the war was mainly fought in the south, the Confederates knew the terrain much better than Union soldiers did.

What military advantage did the South have over the north?

The south also had the advantage of fighting occured inside confederate territory. This gave the confederate troops an advantage, as they knew the land better than the North. Also, the south was fighitng a defensive war. All the south needed to do was to hold off the Northern invasion.

What military advantage did the union have?

What military advantage did the Union have over the Confederacy in the West? It held control of key river forts. It had a fleet of armored gunboats. It had African American troops.

What was a major weakness of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

Mr. Dowling The Civil War: Strengths and Weaknesses

	Union	Confederacy
Weaknesses	Had to conquer a large area Invading unfamiliar land	Few factories to produce weapons Few railroads to move troops/supplies Few supplies Small population (9 million) More than 1/3 of the population was enslaved Poor navy

How long did it take for the South to recover from the civil war?

Also, many people had Confederate money which was now worthless and the local governments were in disarray. The South needed to be rebuilt. The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War is called the Reconstruction. The Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877.

How was life after the Civil War?

The economic lives of planters, former slaves, and nonslaveholding whites, were transformed after the Civil War. Planters found it hard to adjust to the end of slavery. Out of the conflicts on the plantations, new systems of labor slowly emerged to take the place of slavery.