Because the Union hoped that by creating a blockade on the ports, the South would be unable to trade, and their economy would be ruined.
The North were referred to as the Union troops and the South was called the Confederates. Their nicknames were the North Yankees and the South Rebels.
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The blockade was used by the Union Soldiers to blockade southern ports so that they could not import or export goods.
The Northern forces were the Federals or the Union, called Yankees by the other side. The Southern were the Confederates or Successionists, called the rebels by the other side.
The Union (north of the United States) was in war with the Confederates (south of the United States. The Union tried to starve the south out by making a blockade. The way the south stopped it was by putting iron on its ships and shooting cannons at the other ships.
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The South was called Confederates and the North was called Unions.
The Confederates are the Southern soldiers.
By organising a system of blockade-runners. (See 'Gone with the Wind'.)
Blockades on Southern ports were set up in the Anaconda Plan. This plan was to use naval vessels to block all ports within the Confederates States. If they could not get their cotton out to market then they could not bring in any supplies.
The Confederates were the Southern slave-states that had seceded from the USA. The Union (North) was what was left.
Because it made sure that the south could not sell or recieve goods. It ruined their economy.
southern blockade-runners- fast ships that outran the federal ships- often slipped through the blockade.
To prevent the South from exporting its plentiful cotton in exchange for war supplies.
The Union blockade of Southern ports stopped he Confederacy from exporting its plentiful cotton in exchange for war supplies. And Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had kept Britain and France from aiding the Confederates.