Part one of term paper
In 1861 the United States was splitting apart. The South felt it was necessary to secede from the Union. There was no doubt that secession would provoke civil war. The South didn’t have many resources and had a lower population. There was the South’s weakness of Nationalism. The North had a more stable economy and strong leadership. ...

Part two of term paper
... hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. The North’s population was at 22 million while the South had only 5.5 million free men. The North had an overwhelming advantage of numbers, which increased as new immigrants came to the North. This made the numbers of the Union Army much higher than the numbers of the Confederate Army. The So ...