Food Shortages
Three Reasons and $68
Three Reasons and The Union Plays Part in Two
There are three main reasons the Confederacy is facing a food shortage. One, the power and amount of men in the army has decreased immensely. Two, the increase in food-growing in the Union. Three, the slaves are escaping which leaves less people to take care of crops. Food is scarce, therefore, prices are up.
Starving Children
You wouldn't want this to be your family now would you? Help the starving families and lower the prices.
Cotton for Gold?
The Union is blocking the ports to allow supplies in such as: salt, coffee, sugar, needles, and medicine. YOU can still smuggle in your cotton to trade for food and even GOLD!
What a Riot!
ATTENTION WOMEN AND CHILDREN! Head to your local bakery on the weekends, cause a ruckus, and you may have dinner handed to you.
Let Them Eat Rice, Oh Wait...
Skyrocketing Prices
Over the two year period from 1861 to 1863, the average cost a family spends per month on food has gone from six dollars to about sixty-eight. Meat is very scarce. The most popular foods of corn and rice are even hard to find. That is if food can even be found. The money situation is causing riots of women, children, and even men to protest as they do not know where their next meal is coming from.