The greatest weakness of the south during the Civil War was its?

Question

a. military leadership
b. navy
c. slave population
d. economy

Answer 1

D Economy. Cotton was king in the south, they assumed that could fund the war.The market they had with northern states was obviously gone, and northern ships did a good job blockading the southern ports. They assumed Britain come to their aid to ensure its supply of cotton, but Britain simply increased cotton growing in India and did not get involved with the confederacy

Answer 2

D: The economy:
When put against the industrial, and financial backing of the North, the South was horribly unprepared for a war. Clark Gable as Rhett Butler even says it in the movie "Gone With The Wind", ("There's not a cannon factory in the South."). The Southern Confederacy had an almost negligible industrial base to start out of, most factories, and industrial (steel) mills were based out of the north and the amount of immigrant labor to help produce the weapons of war was simply set to such an advantage to that of the North that there was no way that the South could win on an industrial or economic basis.

Answer 3

D. The South's economy.

(It's navy was also weak.)

Answer 4

economy they couldnt produce the war material needed to continue with the on going war... then with the blockade put in place they couldnt get material other places either

Answer 5

being in the south

Answer 6

manifactoring goods