191k views
5 votes
, was the cost of the war higher for the North or the South?

1 Answer

3 votes

Answer:

The cost of the Civil War was much higher for the South. Most of the fighting took place in the south which took a higher toll financially. Besides, most of the factories and rail lines were in the north which made it easier to get supplies and food to Union troops.

Step-by-step explanation:

The south was finanicaly destroyed during the war. When the war was over they had to rebuild from the ground up, could no longer relay on cheap slave labor to work the fields of he cash crops.

User Phaxian
by
5.1k points