... the Southern economy, at the cost of few lives in combat. Practically, the entire Confederate cotton crop was useless, costing the Confederacy its main source of income. Critical imports were scarce and the coastal trade was largely ended as well. The measure of the blockade's success was not the few ships that slipped through, but the thousands that never tried it ... ...
... the Southern economy, at the cost of few lives in combat. Practically, the entire Confederate cotton crop was useless, costing the Confederacy its main source of income. Critical imports were scarce and the coastal trade was largely ended as well. The measure of the blockade's success was not the few ships that slipped through, but the thousands that never tried it ... ...
... , an escape. Work songs were used to keep spirits up, to vent, to make anything that they did just the slightest bit more pleasurable in a time when pleasure was so scarce. Work songs were not just limited to any one area or group of people. In the vein of Blues, the genre changed depending on who was singing and where it ... ...
... without war in America until 1861 was because up until that time there was always enough land to expand. It was when the amount of land available for expansion became scarce that the North and South began to feel friction as to who would control more states, free or slave. The cause of the Civil War was not the issue of ... ...
