The battles of the civil war led to the victor which way of life would be accepted. Both the North and the South wanted a different future for America, and this war would decide it all. In war each side had their own advantages and disadvantages that helped to decide the outcome at each battle. To learn more about each individual skirmish every student was assigned one battle to research. Then they linked their findings in a bit.ly and a qr code. The posters that held this information were scattered around the school to create a civil war scavenger hunt. The question that was assigned to us to answer with our cumulative information was What are some commonalities you can identify in the reasons for the results of the battles? Basically we had to create connections between battled in terms of why each side won. The majority of the north victories are due to their ability to outlast the south. Their manufacturing allowed them to keep their troops supplied while the south struggled to give guns out to all their troops. Population numbers also let the north to continually be fueling their army while the south's numbers began to dwindle. As the war continued to north stayed as strong while the south became weaker and weaker. The south however had better trained troops and also an advantage for they just had to stop the north from winning. The confederate's strategy was to just stop the north from advancing to situations where the south had a defensive advantage they would usually win. The other essential question was who was the ultimate victor in each of the theaters of war: East, West, Naval? The east was difficult to say the one side dominated. In the beginning of the war the south was likely to win while as the war dragged on the north was more likely to win. The west was won out by the north because of their strategical advantages. Their manufacturing, railroads and population size let them usually beat the south. The naval battles were dominated by the union due to the fact that they had a preexisting navy before the war started. This gave them a huge advantage in any battles near or on water.
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