What led to king henry's viii's departure from the catholic church? the pope no longer wanted ties with england. the king wanted a divorce from his wife. the catholic church requested the king's inheritance to expand the church. henry viii wanted to convert to another religion.

Henry VIII had a tough pickle, his Wife Catherine of Aragon, the Spanish queen, had a daughter, Mary, but England's Court will not have a woman as a monarch, much like the rest of Europe at the time, so Henry needed a Son badly for the crown sucession.

Catherine was old by then, I think it was 1520 or thereabouts, so she couldn't give him another child, so he needed a divorce to get a Son with someone else.

So Henry went to the Pope to get a nullification of their marriage, but low and behold, Rome is in the italian peninsula, and the crowned monarch recognized by Rome as well as Spain and Netherlands and the Central Europe, the Holy Roman Emperor was Charles V, Catherine's nephew, so the Pope couldn't say yes to Henry or he'll had to explain to Charles about his auntie, and Catherine refused the nullification on grounds that she wasn't unfaithful to Henry.

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.