With a 3,500 mile coastline
You are a mean person that's why
By organising a system of blockade-runners. (See 'Gone with the Wind'.)
the north was totally invaded by the south and the north totally invaded the south. the north was going to blockade the south and then invade it. The south was going to ware down the north and then invade it
It deprived them of the imports they needed, having no manufacturing capacity of their own. That is why the blockade-runners like Rhett Butler became such important and glamorous figures.
The civil war blockade was when the Navy covered the Southern's coast so that no one could get through. The South could not trade and they could not get supplise or food or even money.
summer of 1961
By organising a system of blockade-runners. (See 'Gone with the Wind'.)
They hired privateers as blockade runners. Unfortunately, any ship quick enough to evade the blockade could not carry much cargo.
Abraham Lincoln created a naval blockade to prevent the south from being able to take part in trading activities. This was an attempt by the president to bring about a peaceful end to the Civil War. The south challenged the blockade by building torpedo boats to attack the naval ships involved in the blockade.
The South surrendered.
A Sea Blockade/ Union Blockade
South
Because the South had no manufacturing industry, so it needed foreign imports. But it also had no Navy to combat the Union blockade.
Because the South had no manufacturing industry, so it needed foreign imports. But it also had no Navy to combat the Union blockade.
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southern blockade-runners- fast ships that outran the federal ships- often slipped through the blockade.
The South used small, fast ships called blockade runners to outrun the longer Union warships and reach trading ports.