USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

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SS.912.A.2.1Why did the Union impose a naval blockade on the South during the Civil War?
A
to promote domestic industries in the South
B
to strangle the shipment of supplies to the Confederacy
C
to motivate enslaved African Americans to migrate to the North
D
to encourage Union sympathizers to persuade their states to rejoin the Union
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the Union impose a naval blockade on the South during the Civil War? to strangle the shipment of supplies to the Confederacy.

Detailed explanation-2: -The blockade, although somewhat porous, was an important economic policy that successfully prevented Confederate access to weapons that the industrialized North could produce for itself. The U.S. Government successfully convinced foreign governments to view the blockade as a legitimate tool of war.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anaconda plan, military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.

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