Yes. It's called blockading.
enforcing a navel blockade
The North's strategy during the American Civil War was known as the Anaconda Plan. It aimed to suffocate the Southern economy by blockading Confederate ports and controlling the Mississippi River to split the Confederacy in two. This strategy sought to limit the South's ability to trade and resupply, ultimately leading to its downfall without the need for a large-scale invasion.
no, that was the north's strategy
The anaconda plan which blockaded all the southern ports.
The Naval blockade of Southern ports.
The Southern aims were to keep their homeland from the Union. The Northern aims were to bring the Southern states back to the Union. The North's strategy was to blockade Southern ports to prevent supplies from reaching the South. The South had a defensive strategy, and it was to hold as much territory as possible until the North got tired of fighting.
the north wanted to bring the south back to the union by cut off their shipments to Europe using the anaconda plan
Yes, it was one of the first strategies adopted by Lincoln.
The Mississippi .
Yes, because the north could not access most of what the south accessed .
mississippi river
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.