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Why would ironclads prove more important to the Union than to the Confederacy?
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• The war at sea was not important to the Confederacy, but it was to the Union.
The Confederacy did not have the resources to make ironclads, but the Union did.
• The Confederate navy did not need ironclads, the Union navy did.
• The Confederate navy already controlled important waterways.

The war at sea was not important to the Confederacy, but it was to the Union. The Confederacy did not have the resources to make ironclads, but the Union did.