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The Union blockade in the American Civil War was a naval strategy by the United States to prevent the Confederacy from trading. ... Those blockade runners fast enough to evade the Union Navy could only carry a small fraction of the supplies needed.

During the Civil War, Union forces established a blockade of Confederate ports designed to prevent the export of cotton and the smuggling of war materiel into the Confederacy. ... The U.S. Government successfully convinced foreign governments to view the blockade as a legitimate tool of war.

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