Teaching with Infographics

North vs. South: Success in the Civil War | Create infographics

The point of this infogram was to teach people about the differences between the North and the South and how they affected each region's success in the Civil War. To start mine off I used population, this sets the scene as to how many people there are and what the Country’s total population was at the time. Next I compared each region's industrial assets; as in things like industrial workers, and value of manufactured goods. In this category it seems that the North pretty much dominated. Next I showed the major crops that each region was producing, these were corn and cotton, the North produced more corn, but in cotton production they were completely overshadowed by the South with a ratio of 0: 5,000,000. The next topic was war strategies, in this department the North came out on top as well. The south had a good idea, to pressure other countries into helping, and it would have worked if it hadn’t been for Egypt and India that could instead supply France and Britain with cotton. Finally in my infographic, I discussed the ultimate advantages of both sides. The North has more railroad mileage, factories and the majority of the population lived in the North. The South had more military colleges so this made the more trained military officials side with the confederacy, they also did not have to initiate any military action but only had to defend their front. Overall both sides had advantages and their were many different aspects of each side that gave them an upper hand on the war.