Why Did the North Enact a Blockade on the Confederacy

question 24

Multiple Choice

Why did the North enact a blockade on the Confederacy during the Civil War?

• A)To persuade them to rejoin the Union
• B)To deny them the imports they needed to survive
• C)To stop the shipment of cotton to France to get them to join the war
• D)It was never enacted
• E)To divert the goods shipped overseas to internal markets

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