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What was the purpose of a naval blockade?
To prevent the South from importing the war supplies it badly needed, having no manufacturing industry of its own.
What is one reason that the union strategy for defeating the south included a naval blockade of south ports?
To prevent the South from exporting its plentiful cotton in exchange for much-needed war-supplies.
What is one reason that the union strategy defeating the south included a naval blockade of southern ports?
In order to prevent the South from importing provisions or supplies from other countries, or from other states.
What best defines the Union strategy of divide and conquer?
the naval blockade of the South
How did the south attempt to avoid the naval blockade?
The South used small, fast ships called blockade runners to outrun the longer Union warships and reach trading ports.
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