Question

Select the items that explain why Southerners discounted the advantages of the North.

Answer 1

They thought England and France would give them military aid.

Answer 2

Answer:

• They thought England and France would give them military aid.
• They thought Northern industries needed Southern markets.
• They doubted that public opinion in the North would support a war against the South.

Explanation:

The Civil War, one of the greatest wars of modernity, was fought between the separatists of the southern United States and the northern government forces, led by President Abraham Lincoln.

The North of the United States has been built around sharply Enlightenment principles, based on the ideals of freedom, labor, and small private property. It was from the North that the initiative for the development of industry in America started, but to this end, customs measures were taken to restrict the purchase of products from other regions of the world. These measures irritated the Southerners, who needed to buy various products for their eminently agrarian subsistence.

Faced with the political restrictions of the North, the southern leaders met in Montgomery and decided to create the Confederate States of America, as opposed to the Northern states. The North, which represented national unity and was governed by Abraham Lincoln, did not accept the southern proposal and the war between the two regions of the country broke out in 1861. The Southerners believed it was impossible for them to lose the war because they believed that:

• They thought England and France would give them military aid.
• They thought Northern industries needed Southern markets.
• They doubted that public opinion in the North would support a war against the South.