What are advantages of a mixed market economic system?
(select all that apply.)

competition lowers prices and increases choices.
the private sector is encouraged to make profits.
the government provides essential services.
low taxes reduce income inequality.

I think that the advantages of a mixed market economic system

are: competition lowers prices and increases choices and the government provides essential services.

The mixed economy system combines government planning with the use of the free market. In the mixed economy, just as in the market economy, people and firms in the private sector own scarce resources with the aim of making as much money as possible. However, in mixed economies the government also own some scarse resources to produce what they think their country needs.

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.