• Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Was it really? I was under the impression that they mostly were agricultural, while the north had all the light and heavy industries… (sorry, I’m not american)

    • WagyuSneakers@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      You are correct. It heavily contributed to their loss. Without international support, or the industries to leverage that support they were isolated, poor and out of manpower.

      If Union leadership was better in the beginning we would have seen them rolled much faster.

    • AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee
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      18 hours ago

      This was RIGHT before the industrial revolution in America. The timing of industrialization going north because the south was utterly burned to the ground was a massive shock that is still felt today. They couldn’t switch to industrialization in time