What were the strengths and weaknesses of both the North and South before and du

Question:

What were the strengths and weaknesses of both the North and South before and during the civil war?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Weaknesses of the South:
- no diplomatic recognition of the C.S.A.
- the instituition of slavery
- a President who micro-managed the war, and distrusted his capabale generals (Beauregard and Johnston)
- a small navy
- no overall strategy to win the war
- economic stagnation

Strengths of the North:
- diplomatic reconition by other countries
- (after the emancipation proclamation) abolition
- a President who trusted his capable generals when he found them (Grant and Sherman)
- a larger navy (capable of fire support/blockade duties)
- an overall strategy to win the war
- (after 1861) an economic boom