It stopped the Confederacy from importing the goods it desperately needed.
Because Savannah was one of the blockade-runners' favourite ports.
To starve them of the imported goods they needed, having no manufacturing industry, only agriculture.
Very effective. Only small, light craft could get through, and these could not carry important war supplies.
southern blockade-runners- fast ships that outran the federal ships- often slipped through the blockade.
Private citizens who took the risk of invading the Union Blockade for a chance of huge profits.
Because Savannah was one of the blockade-runners' favourite ports.
To stop aid from Europe.
To stop aid from Europe.
There were many ships in the blockade. The two most important were the USS Newport News and the USS Leary.
they put up a Blockade. The blockade stopped us from getting in.
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.
During the US Civil War, the South had virtually no navy. This prevented them from actively battling with Union ships that were sent to blockade important Southern ports. Instead, they used mines, artillery fortifications and small scale raiding vessels to impede the Northern blockade.
The naval blockade was no match for our cutters.
there was a trade blockade during the Revolution and they blockaded Boston harbor meaning nothing could go in or out or......... a trade blockade is when a port or important place for trade is blocked so noting can come in to it (be imported) or nothing can come out of it(be exported) so you would have to grow all your food and have evrything you needed to survive.
Despite the Union blockade of most Southern ports, it was not a complete blockade. Thus some quantities of cotton were able to be shipped over to Great Britain during the war.
Because it was a very important naval and military base and one of the most touched port by the blockade runners.
To starve them of the imported goods they needed, having no manufacturing industry, only agriculture.