USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Terms and People blockade – the shutting off of a port by ships to keep people or supplies from moving in or out mercenary – soldier who serves another.

Detailed explanation-2: -In less than a week, the Union began its blockade of the southern states in an effort to prevent the trade of goods, supplies, and weapons between the Confederacy and other nations.

Detailed explanation-3: -A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the Civil War, Union forces established a blockade of Confederate ports designed to prevent the export of cotton and the smuggling of war materiel into the Confederacy.

Detailed explanation-5: -The blockade was proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln in April 1861, and required the monitoring of 3, 500 miles (5, 600 km) of Atlantic and Gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably New Orleans and Mobile.