North Rules South Drools

North Rules South Drools | Create infographics

This past week my class and I created infographics to illustrate the difference between the North and South and how their differences affected each region’s strategy and success in the civil war. I chose to make my infographic using infogr.am. In terms of advantages, the South was mainly carrying themselves on their profit from agriculture, which is why I started my infographic with information about their crops. My infographic then carried on to provide information on the North’s strong suits, of which there seemed to be many. I got the majority of these characteristics from a document describing the advantages of the North and South and another document which provided exact statistics for the information I displayed in my infographic. I concluded my infographic with a display of the differing populations. Because the South didn’t have enough people to fight in the war and keep their economy up, they decided they would bring outside forces on their side to build up their numbers. The South denied their exports to Great Britain and France in hopes Europe would support them in order to gain their cotton back. Europe instead turned to Egypt and India for their cotton, leaving the Deep South in deep trouble. On the other hand, although the South had only a fraction of the North’s population, most of the country’s military colleges and trained officers were in the South. And, because the Northerners were seeking to abolish an already existent system in the South, requiring them to raid and overtake all Southerners, the North’s route of battle seemed much harder to take than the South’s. Southerners planned on a war of attrition, which meant they would turn back union forces until they lost the will to fight. This backfired- the Northern spirits only grew stronger. They knew what they wanted to fight for and would not rest until it was achieved. Rather than simply looking at the statistics of the war, this project gave us the opportunity to analyze data given to us and find it’s relevancy to the outcome of the war. I have a strong understanding of the impact these statistics had on the American Civil War.