If you were to be an odds-maker right after the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, whom would you have made the favorite in the upcoming battle between the Confederates and the Union. Why?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Most students will see the reasons that someone might "bet" on the Union. The text provides some good figures that show their superior production and manpower resources. Good students will also point to Confederate advantages. Students mistakenly assert that the Confederates' "home field advantage" allowed them to know the territory better or that they had greater "will to win." Their advantages included the necessity for the Union to engage in a war of conquest over a huge territory which would tie up many of their troops. The Union's limited war policy meant that at the beginning of the war, Confederates could count on keeping slaves at home to work while the whites fought.
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What will be an ideal response?
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a) 12 million Consider This: Another 20 million combatants were wounded, some with permanent injuries. See 12.1: The Wages of War. b) 16 million c) 20 million Consider This: Another 20 million combatants were wounded, some with permanent injuries. See 12.1: The Wages of War. d) 24 million Consider This: Another 20 million combatants were wounded, some with permanent injuries. See 12.1: The Wages of War.