Not a very hard question

coffeeco company, a national coffee store, has several stores in a busy downtown area. after opening two more locations, they noticed that sales at their stores stopped growing. which of the following is the most likely explanation for what happened?

coffeeco spent all of its profits on opening new stores.

the cost of the coffee became too expensive for customers.

the new stores took business away from existing stores.

people in the area lost interest in buying coffee.

The new stores took business away from existing stores.

union blockade

explanation:

the union blockade in the american civil war was a naval strategy by the united states to prevent the confederacy from trading.

the blockade was proclaimed by president abraham lincoln in april 1861, and required the monitoring of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of atlantic and gulf coastline, including 12 major ports, notably new orleans and mobile. those blockade runners fast enough to evade the union navy could only carry a small fraction of the supplies needed. they were operated largely by british citizens, making use of neutral ports such as havana, nassau and bermuda. the union commissioned around 500 ships, which destroyed or captured about 1,500 blockade runners over the course of the war.