I think it’s 2 but i am not too sure
The first one I would believe
The nmain goal of the union blockade in the South was to was to crush the life out of the Confederacy. This was done to prevent the Confederacy from receiving supplies, therefore, demoralizing them and starving them leading to their surrender.
The creation of distinctive classes in the North drove striking new cultural developments. Even among the wealthy elites, northern business families, who had mainly inherited their money, distanced themselves from the newly wealthy manufacturing leaders. Regardless of how they had earned their money, however, the elite lived and socialized apart from members of the growing middle class. The middle class valued work, consumption, and education and dedicated their energies to maintaining or advancing their social status. Wage workers formed their own society in industrial cities and mill villages, though lack of money and long working hours effectively prevented the working class from consuming the fruits of their labor, educating their children, or advancing up the economic ladder.
