Why did the South lose the Civil War?

Why was the south predestined to lose in the civil war?

• Answer:

  "the south never stood a chance"president Lincoln said this becausethe south had big challenges to face.including economic structure (the south's economy was based upon free labor)and the south did not manufacture much, mainly cotton and corn.when they tried to use what little advantage they had towards foreign relations, they actually overestimated themselves and ending up ruining and weakening the British demand for cotton. also a disadvantage was the fact that the ratio of slaves to "citizens" in the south was 1 to 7. while trying to keep the northerners suppressed, the south also faced the challenge of keeping pissed off slaves from trying to escape at the same time. another severe disadvantage was the social structure in the south.slavery only benefitted the one tenth of the richest southerners who were at the top of the social hierarchy. these were the only people who could afford slavery.and this was at the price of everyone else.since slavery made it free to produce items that took much more labor for non-slave owners to produce, making it not wortth a war to the rest of the population.