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It prevented any major vessels entering or leaving Southern ports. This ended Confederate hopes of exporting their plentiful cotton in exchange for war supplies.

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The Confederate economy was especially hurt by?

the Union's effective naval blockade on cotton exports


What did the most alarming confederate threat to the union blockade come from?

The most alarming confederate threat to the Union blockade was the ironclad Merrimack.


Who was the confederate general at the union blockade?

Semmes.


What was the name of the Union strategy in which the Union wanted to blockade the Confederate?

The fish hook


The Union seriously hampered the Confederate war effort?

The Union naval blockade seriously hampered the Confederate war effort


What was the Union's strategy in the war at sea?

To blockade the Confederate Ports, intercepting the blockade runners and hunt down the Confederate cruisers, which were trying to capture or sink the Union merchant ships, throughout the seas.


Why was it important for the union to blockade confederate states?

To stop aid from Europe.


How did the Civil War affect the country's economy?

It stimulated the Northern factories and farms, which were required to produce all manner of war supplies. By contrast, the Southern economy stagnated, as the Union naval blockade prevented the exchange of cotton for war supplies, and the Confederate dollar became almost worthless.


The Union Navy enforced what to stop trade in Southern seaports?

A blockade NEW RESPONDENT The blockade and the hunting of the Confederate cruisers attacking the Union merchant ships.


What was the name of the union strategy in which the union wanted to blockade the confederate coast and take control of the Mississippi?

The Anaconda Plan


What caused many material shortages for the Conderacy?

The Union naval blockade of Confederate ports


Where is the port for the union blockade of confederate?

There were several. New Orleans. Mobile. Savannah. Charleston.