Revise this passage so that it uses a formal style, precise language, and domain- specific vocabulary. Use the following domain-specific vocabulary in your revision:

• Blockade: The shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out
Import: To bring products and goods into a country
Export: To send products and goods to another country

Passage:

At the beginning of the Civil War, President Lincoln ordered the U. S. Navy to
close off the ports along almost 3,500 miles of Atlantic coastline. This was so
the Union could stop them from bringing products in and from sending their
own goods out of the country. Though many smaller Confederate ships were
able to get out of the ports, they only had a little bit of goods, and the South
needed much more to support their economy.

Reread this portion of the excerpted text from common sense. men of passive tempers look somewhat lightly over the offenses of britain, and, still hoping for the best, are apt to call out, come, we shall be friends again for all this. but examine the passions and feelings of mankind. bring the doctrine of reconciliation to the touchstone of nature, and then tell me, whether you can hereafter love, honor, and faithfully serve the power that hath carried fire and sword into your land? if you cannot do all these, then are you only deceiving yourselves, and by your delay bringing ruin upon posterity. your future connection with britain, whom you can neither love nor honor, will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first. what key concept about the relationship between an abusive government and its citizens does paine want readers to understand? use evidence from the text to support your response. your response should be one to two complete paragraphs.