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What happens if the South won the Civil War?
First, the outcome of the victory of the South could have been another Union, ruled by the Southern States. The United-States of America would have another capital in Richmond. Their industrious prosperity would have been stopped and slavery would have remained in all the United-States for a long time.
Who won the Civil War 3?
After four bloody years of conflict, the United States defeated the Confederate States. In the end, the states that were in rebellion were readmitted to the United States, and the institution of slavery was abolished nation-wide.
Did the South ever have a chance?
Southern chances were always bad. The North had more men, resources, railroads and a navy. The South could have won if the North came to terms in 1862. However, by 1863, the South had physically lost the war and only way the South could win was if, and only if, the North lost its nerve.
Did the Confederates have a chance?
What if the south won the Civil War?
What if the South won the Civil War? If the South had won the war, its natural ally would have been Britain, through ties of trade and culture. ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Did the north fight the Civil War with one hand behind its back?
Or as the Southerner Shelby Foote put it in Ken Burns’s influential 1990 documentary The Civil War, “The North fought the war with one hand behind its back…. [T]he North [could] have brought the other arm out from behind its back…. I don’t think that the South ever had a chance to win the war.”
Was the south’s loss inevitable?
Furthermore, the South’s loss was said to be inevitable from the beginning; the fact of loss was somehow mitigated in the myth because it was said that winning had been impossible. If the Confederacy could not have won, it somehow did not lose.”
Was the Civil War a winnable war?
Instead, the rebels ignored the encouraging precedents of black soldiers in the American Revolution (over George Washington’s initial objections) and the War of 1812 and allowed their support of slavery and white supremacy to rule out this option. The war was winnable if Southern resources were husbanded carefully.