<span>Planter families were quickly decimated during the Civil War. Union blockades prevented southern plantations from exporting cotton, tobacco, indigo and other major crop they grew. Also, most of the Civil War was fought in the South, with armies often plundering planter homes for supplies, along with freeing the slaves that made up much of their wealth. At the end of the war, the southern gentry/aristocracy that planter families made up was gone.</span>
Answer: Containment
Explanation: The strategy of "containment" is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II
Roman empire fell leaving many small kingdoms to arise. Over time, one kingdom, Wessex, grew stronger than the others and conquered the other kingdoms. Wessex unified forming England into a single nation in the 1800s.
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In the early 1700s, England then unifies with Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland to form Great Britain.
In 1707 ,the United Kingdom of Great Britain came into being as the results of Acts of Union being passed by parliaments of England and Scotland to ratify the 1706 Treaty of Union and to unite the two kingdoms.