Every American knows the story of the civil war: the courageous
North fought the racist South for the abolishment of slavery and were celebrated
as heroes when they won. But not everyone knows the details behind the story.
Nobody ever talks about how the North had the upper hand from the start; how
they made up 2/3 of American citizens and manufactured over 50% of American
goods. Nobody talks about how the South never wanted to start fighting; how
they just wanted to defend the laws they had been practicing their whole lives.
In Honors History 10, we studied the causes of the Civil War
and what impacted its outcome. Check out this info graphic I made on infogr.am,
explaining how initial differences between the North and South affected each
sides strategies and stance in the Civil War. Most of the stats used in the info graphic were gathered from analyzing railroad maps and a document titled "Slavery by the Numbers".
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