The North had an organized navy, which allowed them to make a blockade around the southern coast lines. Ships coming in with supplies for the Confederate Army, could not pass the blockade. Southern ships carrying merchandise could not get their goods to foreign merchants.
The Naval blockade
Blockades! They blockaded the South's naval ports limiting their trade.
not really
As part of the Anaconda Plan, the North blockaded the southern city seaports. This effectively prevented trade from overseas.
The civil war was fought because of slavery. North=No Slavery South=More Slavery
they could trade to the Indians and to the Spanish but Spain would not let trade go through for the Americans only during the civil war.
Effective naval blockade of principal ports, and control of the Mississippi River
All because of the slaves and the economy was bad and they had to have war to see ifthe econmony would change and it did change . THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH COULD NOT AGREE ABOUT TRADE LAWS. THE NORTH AND SOUTH COULD NOT AGREE ABOUT SLAVERY.
The South and Britain had a cotton trade going at the time of the civil war. If Britain supported the North, the South would have cut of the supply of cotton to Britain. Britain though, actually was in favor of antislavery.
At the start of the American Civil War, it was the North that had "dominance" (or, a strong advantage) in foreign trade. While the South's cotton was a primary export crop for the United States before the war, it was Northern merchants who handled the vast majority of the shipping between markets, just as the ships themselves were typically constructed by Northern ship-builders.
Mz.Jazzy
enforcing a navel blockade