A resource comparison of the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. The title is Comparing Resources. The data are as follows. For each category, the Union percentage is listed first, the Confederate percentage, second. Horses, 72, 28, Food Crops, 72, 28, Cotton, 1, 99, Prewar Exports, 30, 70, Soldiers, 67, 33, Firearm Production, 97, 3, Railroad Tracks, 71, 29, Factories, 86, 14, Bank Deposits, 81, 19, Total Population, 71, 29. Public domain Use the graph and your knowledge of U.S. history to answer the question. Which of these explains the differences in Union vs. Confederate firearm production during the Civil War? The North had a highly skilled labor force to make them. The North's heavy industrialization provided an advantage. The South had fewer men who were trained as metalworkers. The South's means of production were destroyed by General William Tecumseh Sherman.

A decisive factor in the victory of the Union in the Civil War was the clear differentiation between the northern and southern economies. In the first, the great capitalist industry was growing, with a large concentration of salaried labor, in full swing and at the gates of the Second Industrial Revolution (to which the war contributed, with the new military technologies such as the battleships or the production of mass weaponry). These bourgeois groups from the north were represented by the new Republican Party, of a liberal nationalist type, which sought the implementation of protectionist policies.

On the other hand, the south remained anchored in an economic system that was unfavorable to capitalist development (mechanization and hiring of workers was cheaper than the maintenance of slaves). The Democratic Party would be the defender of slavery. This party had led the great expansion of the country to the south (activism in favor of the annexation of Mexican territory) and now stood as representative of the southern elites, which sought fundamentally the extension of the slave system and free trade for the export of raw materials and the importation of manufactured goods without barriers.