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Was the north or south better economically prepared to fight in the civil war?

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Generally, the North was militarily better prepared to fight and win the civil war, and this was probably their greatest advantage. The North was overwhelmingly rural but still had a much greater industrial capacity than the South. It had ten times its productive capacity and six times as many factories.

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