Answer:
Answer: 1. More soldiers and more workers
2. Other than shipping, railroads were the fastest way to travel in the time period. With fewer miles of railroad, Southern troops would have fewer options for fast travel to where they would be needed.
3. Quality of troops or leadership, amount of money available, guns and gunpowder already available
They lost 74% of our treaty territory
Yes, this was true. It is said that Osman dreamed about a tree growing out of his chest reaching to all those 3 continents. He relied to his Shaykh on what this meant, and his Shaykh told him it was a sign from his predecessors.
A primary source comes from a first-hand witness's point of view which makes the information from that source more valid than a secondary.