Effectiveness Of The Blockade

     The North’s advantage in transport weighed heavily as the war went on. The Union had more wagons, horses, and ships than that of the Confederacy, and they also had an impressive edge in railroads. The Confederacy had only one east-west rail connection, between Memphis, Tennessee and Chattanooga, Tennessee. The latter was an important rail hub with connections via Knoxville, Tennessee into Virginia and down through Atlanta, Georgia to Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia. But the North already had an extensive railroad network. Three major lines gave the western

To avoid military confrontation, Congress passed a different tariff that South Carolina was able to accept. The South took such measures because they felt that the North (Washington) was attacking them by passing laws that favored one section of the country’s economy over theirs. South Carolina later repealed their Nullification

At the beginning of the war the Union thought it would be an easy, quick war. The Union leaders at this time had no actual plan for the war. General Scott saw this and came up with the Anaconda plan. Scott considered the war a strategy game, and would attack and penetrate the enemy 's forces without destroying all of their troops; focusing mainly on victory. At the beginning of the war Scott, unlike others, thought that the war would be over in more than two years. The war ended in four years. The term Anaconda plan came from Northern press trying to explain Scotts plan. Many people thought that Scotts plan was too passive and difficult. The Union’s effort in the civil war increased greatly on April 19, 1861. At this point Abraham Lincoln created a naval blockade, a system of ships that stops all imports and exports, on the Confederate coastline. This blockade stretched from the Rio Grande to the Chesapeake Bay. At this time Lincoln’s argument was that the Confederacy had no right to secede. Creating this blockade allowed the National warships to attack privateers. Privateers are privately owned and run warships. These ships were used to take the Union’s trade ships. Getting rid of the privateers meant that the Union could transport goods easier. Scott 's anaconda plan needed the Union’s army and navy to surround the Confederacy. After encompassing the Confederacy the army and navy would tighten in, and effectively strangle the South. This contained two

The point of the protective tariffs was that the Northern states would manufacture their own products to avoid benefitting foreign countries. This was a disadvantage for the South as they had no benefits from it. Polk had appointed his Secretary of the Treasure, Robert J. Walker, to lower the tariff rates of products to a standard rate, this was known as the Walker Tariff. It lowered the taxes on items that were a necessity, and increased for luxury items. The political effects of the Walker Tariff was political conflict between the North and the South. The North was against such a law because it provided less profit from the South. The South benefitted in a way that they did not have to pay too much on exports of foreign countries. This benefitted the United States economically because it encouraged the South to trade and export their extra crops to countries abroad. As a result, relations among America and Britain had improved because the Walker Tariff encouraged free trade between them. It also allowed Britain to import the grains produced in

At first the South relied on imported arms and munitions but soon was able to produce its own. It had more trouble with clothing and food throughout the duration of the war.

The north was becoming increasingly industrialized while the south was still mainly agricultural. Congress passed a tariff that benefitted the producers of cloth, mostly north, however it shrunk the demand for southern raw cotton. The south were infuriated and looked to Vice President, John C. Calhoun, for support against the "tariff of abomination." Calhoun supported the first tariff, however, if he ever wanted a future political career he needed to rethink his position. Calhoun proposed the idea that the power of states should be greater than the federal. South Carolina then believed they had the right to nullify the tariff. Jackson who did not approve of nullification threatened to send troops in. He also forced Calhoun into resigning his position. Meanwhile, South Carolina threatened to secede the union. Jackson was granted a bill from congress to enact and send troops in, however, Henry Clay revised the tariff before armed confrontation was

This plan was never adopted mainly due to Winfield Scott’s lack of planning. His proposal for the blockade was not properly a strategy, despite the fact that it is often referred to by historians as one. It did not estimate the forces that would be needed to guard the 3000 or more miles of coastline in the seceded states.[5] Nor did it consider an allocation of resources, set out a time line, or even name points of particular concern. Due to this lack of planning, Lincoln was extremely skeptical of the plan’s possible success. It was because his doubt of the plan’s success that he chose to battle with the Confederacy in ground campaigns, rather than waiting for a slow strangulation of the Confederacy to occur.

Subsequently after the electon of Abraham Lincoln the south were outraged because they knew that Abraham Lincoln would not put up with the non-sense of slavery ("Causes Of The Civil War." History Net Where History Comes Alive World US History Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016.) The south knw that they had to do something about Lincoln, but they were collectivly unsure of what to do. There would be many assassination attemps on Lincoln and many of them would fail. One, however did not fail as Lincoln was shot in the back of the head at Ford's Theater, by a man named John Wilkes Booth. Luckily for the people of America, this was after slavery was banned. As the south knew that banning slavery would be Lincolns plan, this was another big reason as to why they would engage in war with the north. ("Causes Of The Civil War." History Net Where History Comes Alive World US History Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Jan. 2016.) After Lincoln's election, the south had wanted nohthing to do with a counrty ran by Lincoln, especially with the plans he had in store. All the south had to do to light the spark that would soon become war was to

Finally, the Confederacy relied on mutual economic interest with England, since England was the main buyer of Southern cotton, and requested the British to join them in the war; however, Emancipation affected the British to join the war, and they lost interest to support the Confederacy. Due to all these factors, Lincoln perceived Emancipation as a political and military necessity. Before, declaring Emancipation, in order to prevent the connection of border slave states to the Confederacy, Lincoln offered Border States gradual Emancipation as well as government compensation to slave owners (P.413). He also advised blacks to move back to Africa, so he signed a contract to send slaves back to Haiti. After abolitionist’s support in congress and

“The blockade devastated the American economy. Between 1811 and 1814, the value of exports and imports fell from $114 million to $20 million, while custom rates used to finance the war were more than halved from $13 million to $6 million. Many American merchant vessels did not risk leaving port.”

A blockade can be defined as an effort to cut off supplies, war materials or communication between forces partially or totally. If one side can establish a blockade it would get easier to defeat the other side, because an effective blockade can cause military and economically problems. During the Civil War, Union navy established a blockade of Confederate ports to prevent export, import and war supplies. The author William N. Still, Jr. argues the effectiveness of a blockade during the Civil War. He argues that the blockade was both effective and ineffective. The effectiveness increased through the end of the war. The blockade had little effect in the war. He gives examples about its effectiveness, such as importance of blockade to cause economic problems. On the other hand, there is considerable evidence showing the ineffectiveness of the

April 12, 1861 the first shots were fired in what would become on the bloodiest wars American has ever seen. President Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) would be forced to drastic measures to stop the Union from crumbling from underneath him. One of these drastic measures came from a General Winfield Scott (1786 - 1866) and his Anaconda Plan, a complete blockade of all of the Confederacy’s ports. The plan would go on to be approved by President Lincoln a mere 6 days later. The Union forces would move to enact this plan by blockading all trade from the Confederacy ports to cutoff their supply line from the international community that was watching this war with a keen interest in the results. The efforts being put forth by the Union Navy to blockade

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Economically the Union was very strong and greatly outweighed the South. President Lincoln, as the war had begun, quickly declared a blockade, as described earlier, against the main Confederate ports. This was supposed to be under an international treaty, that hadn’t been signed yet, which had created the controversial political issues for Lincoln. Fortunate enough for the Union, when war broke out the United States Navy was small like it’s army, and its ships were scattered around the oceans. Of the American ships that were in surrounding waters, ten were partially destroyed or destroyed to prevent them from going to the Confederates when Virginia seceded. If they did this would have taken the Norfolk naval base with it.

In the north, keeping deal with other countries was meant keeping European powers from intervening in the war on the southern side. In the war, when they found out that Europe is going to stay out of the conflict then the Northern start focusing on domestic politics. After Lincoln was elected in the USA, they used his power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus the right of prisoners to a