To prevent the South from importing the goods they needed.
Blockades on Southern ports were set up in the Anaconda Plan. This plan was to use naval vessels to block all ports within the Confederates States. If they could not get their cotton out to market then they could not bring in any supplies.
The blockading of Southern ports. This was generally successful.
The Naval blockade of Southern ports.
Cotton - their only big commodity. But the Union blockade of Southern ports largely prevented this.
To blockade the Southern ports.
theanaconda plan was a plan made by the north. the plan was to use ships to make a blockade at the southern ports to block the supply routes
Blockade
So the union can't get through
The blockading of Southern ports. This was generally successful.
The anaconda plan which blockaded all the southern ports.
Blockades on Southern ports were set up in the Anaconda Plan. This plan was to use naval vessels to block all ports within the Confederates States. If they could not get their cotton out to market then they could not bring in any supplies.
They were able to blockade the southern ports preventing the southern army from being resupplied by overseas interests.
The North used a strategy called the "Anaconda Plan". The plan was to set up a naval blockade along the eastern coast. The goal was to to block imports to the South and to strangle the South's economy. Hence, the name anaconda.
They were blockaded, generally successfully from the North's point of view.
There was a plan where they would blockade southern ports, and block their food and supply income
The north wanted to block there ports, take control of the mississippi river and take the capitol, richmond VA. The south just wanted to defend the north and hope that they would lose interest.
The Naval blockade of Southern ports.