How did the federal blockade of New Orleans affect the citizens of Louisiana ?

Answer 1

New Orleans is a seaport and serves as the interface between shipping on the Mississippi River system(Including Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio rivers) and the rest of the world. When you cut a seaport off from the sea, it gets very poor as does the country behind it that depends on the port to ship their products(cotton primarily in this case) out and bring food and other necessities (in this case just about anything that is manufactured such as rifles or railroad engines) in.