Meh... Even if we lost the civil war (Fcuk the south, Union foerver!!), the United States still could've emerged as a great power.
How?
I meant to say "Middle Power". I think we would have, if the South won, ended up much like Canada in terms of power globally.
Your wrong. Keep in mind that the Confederate Flag had thirteen stars in there flag, not eleven. Those extra two were for Kentucky and Missouri. If we had lost the war, then the South could have demanded them. There also wouldn't have been a West Virginia either cause the State of Virginia would have likely gotten it back. With the loss of the majority of the US Coal deposits to the Confederacy the chance of building the great Steel industry would have been reduced as Coal and would have been more expensive and less abundant. Thus steel would have been less abundant and more expensive. Finally the Railroads would have had to spend more to build track and fuel there trains(using primarily Coal). Lastly Railroads were the boom industry that created the large economic booms and the Railroads formed two different economic bubbles that crashed in 1873 and 1893. Without the railroad expansion you wouldn't have had the post war economic boom from 1865-1873 or the large Economic expansion that allowed the US to begin to ecplise Britain in the 1880's. The US would have been a poorer, less powerful, and unstable country.
