403.Effects of the Blockade
As months and years went by , and the block - ade became stricter and stricter , the suf - ferings of the Southern people became ever greater . As they could not send their prod - ucts to Europe to exchange for goods , they had to pay gold and silver for whatever the blockade runners brought in . Soon there was no more gold and silver in the Con - federacy , and paper money took its place . Then the supplies of manufactured goods , as clothing and paper , of things not pro - duced in the South , as coffee and salt , gave out . Toward the end of the war there were absolutely no medicines for the Southern soldiers , and guns were so scarce that it was proposed to arm one regiment with pikes . Nothing did more to break down Southern resistance than the blockade .
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