Why was the union successful in the west during the civil war?

The Union had more troops than the Confederacy in the West.

Explanation:

well the fact it is basically a peninsula allowed trade to come from many places, thus allowing cultural diffusion to take place. india has seasonal monsoons that merchants travel back and forth from india using the monsoons wind patterns

b toward the volcano.landward. the landward side of something is the side nearest to the land or facing the land, rather than the sea.