Growing dissension between the North and the South began to grow years before the Civil War. This disagreement between the two regions has led each side to understand the major differences between them. The regions had different political and moral opinions and visions about the future of the economy. A key difference between the North and the South was their view of slavery. The Southern economy was based primarily on cash crops such as cotton. These crops were grown on plantations with slaves as the main source of labor. The South wanted to continue and expand the practice of slavery in the West, but the North was adamantly against such action. Many antislavery and abolition movements had significant support in the North. This disagreement eventually led to the outbreak of civil war. Each side had different advantages and disadvantages at the beginning of the war due to the differences in the economies and people in the North and South before the Civil War. The major advantages and disadvantages of the North and the South contributed to the success or complication of each side's war strategies. The North's advantages outweighed their disadvantages, and the South's advantages led to the North's victory in the American Civil War. The North had many advantages at the start of the Civil War. One advantage the North had over the South was population size. The North contained more than 60% of the population while the South contained less than 40%. This population difference plays an important role in the North's ability to provide troops for military service and continue producing industries. If the North had not had a significant population, the production of war materials might have lagged behind (He... half of the map... of New Orleans. The inability to supply the troops complicated the fate of the South) strategy and forced their troops to subject themselves to poor and harsh conditions (Hewitt and Lawson 398-405). Another disadvantage of the South during the Civil War was Jefferson Davis' lack of interest in Southern civilians. Davis was primarily interested in military duties during the war and paid little attention to the morale of Southern civilians. As a result of his inattention to the public, the Confederacy's economy began to collapse during the Civil War the morale of Southern civilians complicated the Confederacy's war effort. This civil dissent drew attention away from the war and forced Southern leaders to focus on other concerns such as the costs of the war (Hewitt and Lawson). 403-410).