Discuss the advantages and disadvantages (economic, political, diplomatic, military) of both sides in this epic struggle. Are you able to ascertain a scenario in which the South could have won the war?
Readings:
Charles Hubbard, James
Mason, the Confederate Lobby, and the Blockade Debate of March 1862
Howard Jones, Union
and Confederate Diplomacy During the Civil War
http://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/union-and-confederate-diplomacy-during-the-civil-war.html
Roger Ransom, The
Economics of the Civil War
Arturo Rivera, Why
The South Wasn’t Ready for War
https://americancivilwar.com/authors/arrturo_rivera.html
Steven Woodworth, This
Great Struggle, Ch. 2 and 3
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