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The Union ArmyfactoriesFort SumterBritainCivil WarSelect your answer formed the Anaconda Plan to block off Southern ports from weapons and supplies. The Confederacy received several warships from BritainciviliansGatling machine gunBull RunnavySelect your answer and France, but the European nations did not recognize the Confederacy as an independent nation. BritainfactoriesGatling machine gunUnion ArmyBull RunSelect your answer, the first major battle of the Civil War, was won by the Confederates under the command of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

The Civil War was a "total war"--soldiers and navyciviliansFort SumterBull RunfactoriesSelect your answer were targets of both sides. New inventions, such as the Bull RunGatling machine gunfactoriesnavyciviliansSelect your answer, iron-covered battleships, submarines, railroads, and telegraphs made it the first modern war. The Union had developed a powerful BritainBull RunUnion ArmyfactoriesnavySelect your answer while the Confederacy had few ships.