The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the second choice "<span>Caused inflation and shortages in the South, especially for manufactured goods."
</span>The Blockade<span> of Confederate Ports, 1861–1865. </span>During the Civil War<span>, </span>Union<span> forces established a </span>blockade<span> of Confederate ports designed to prevent the export of cotton and the smuggling of </span>war<span> materiel into the Confederacy.</span>
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Answer: The efforts to deal with the issue of enslavement with legislative compromises were doomed to fail—enslavement was never going to be a sustainable practice in a modern democratic country. But the institution was so entrenched in the United States that it could only be resolved by a Civil War and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment.
