For what ideas might a country be willing to fight?

A country may be fighting for either something that they desire, (more land to conquer) or for defending their own country from someone else trying to take from what's theirs.

A country would fight for honor, desires, rights, access, power and control, and land.

Explanation:

These are all common things that were and are still fought over between countries.

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.