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What were the advantages and disadvantages for the north and the south at the start of the war

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Despite the North's greater population, however, the South had an army almost equal in size during the first year of the war. The North had an enormous industrial advantage as well. At the beginning of the war, the Confederacy had only one-ninth the industrial capacity of the Union.

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The advantages were that the south had slaves and for which they could build stuff faster. A disadvantage was that the northerners were more advanced at the start of the war for which they had cannons and rifles.