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The North and the South each had distinct advantages and disadvantages at the beginning of the Civil War. List and explain each advantage and disadvantage.

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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. But that statistic was misleading



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