SECTIONAL CRISIS 1850 1861
START OF THE CIVIL WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Union Blockades
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Union capture of Port Royal
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Burning of Columbia
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the Union find it difficult to maintain the blockade it set up to control southern ports? The Union navy was not as strong as the naval forces of the Confederacy. The South had the help of the European navy to get around the blockade.
Detailed explanation-2: -What was the main reason the blockade was a difficulty for the South? The cotton crops piled up in the ports; as a result, they were not able to reach their markets in England.
Detailed explanation-3: -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. Prize law is that part of international law which concerns the capture of enemy property by a belligerent at sea during war.
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.