The Confederate States of America was a nation but was struggling because of difficult circumstances and was unable to achieve its goals or maintain its own identity as a government. By the end of the Civil War the South had already given in to most of the northern demands and the government had become a far cry from what it set out to be and stand against. The South was doomed for economic peril and civil change even before the formation of the Confederacy. Mounting tensions over philosophies of government, economics, and ethics between the different regions of the United States and a constitution that allowed for states rights and secession from the Union, led to the separation and ultimate failure of the South. In this essay it will be shown how the North had the advantage over the South politically and militarily, and how the North had...