Compare And Contrast Confederate And Virginia

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In Chapter 15, we begin viewing on how the Union and the Confederacy chose sides and how they wanted to win the Civil war. However even in the South itself had sides. The Upper South had to face a choice either fight against the Lower South or fight against the Union. Between the Northern and Southern states the Union had more advantages than the Confederates. The war initially began in Fort Sumner-Union fort on an island at the entrance to Charleston harbor in South Carolina. After Confederate leaders learned that President Lincoln intended to resupply Fort Sumner,- Confederate forces attacked the fort on April 12, 1861, thus making the start of the Civil War- where it was supposed to be a peaceful meeting turned ugly creating the beginning of the Civil War.

Many in the South felt betrayed, believing that Lincoln promised to
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Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina joined the Confederacy. But border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, Unionism triumphed. President Lincoln knew that the border states had indispensable resources, population, and wealth that controlled major rivers and railroads. While the Confederates had many more states than the Union did, the Union states had a huge population people and resources which evened the two out. In Virginia, the dissatisfaction was so rife that Virginia was split into two different states. West Virginia was loyal to the Union and Virginia was loyal to the Confederacy. Still, four new states strengthened the Confederacy’s drive for national independence.

Slaveholders had a more economic drive in preserving slavery,