Prevented them exporting their plentiful cotton in exchange for war supplies.
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.
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.
By organising a system of blockade-runners. (See 'Gone with the Wind'.)
stffu
yes
southern blockade-runners- fast ships that outran the federal ships- often slipped through the blockade.
British naval blockade
The South used small, fast ships called blockade runners to outrun the longer Union warships and reach trading ports.