Question

Why did the Union win?

Answer 1

Any ideas? Think especially about the North's economy compared to the South's. What did the North have? Also consider things infrastructure and population.

Answer 2

According to Lee, the Confederacy lost the American Civil War not because it fought badly but because the enemy had more men and guns – indeed more everything. ... Many insist that the Confederacy lost – rather than the Union won – the Civil War.