The Most Serious Confederate Threat to the Union Blockade Came

question 55

Multiple Choice

The most serious Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from  

• A) British navy vessels on loan to the South.
• B) swift blockade-running steamers.
• C) the threat of mutiny from pro-southern sailors.
• D) the entrance of the British and French navies as direct military combatants on behalf of the Confederacy.
• E) the ironclad Merrimack (renamed the Virginia) warship, which destroyed two wooden ships of the Union navy off the Chesapeake Bay and threatened to destroy many more wooden Union warships.

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