The blockade was one of the three elements of the Anaconda Plan. Part two was control of the Mississippi while part three was denial of the West to the Confederate States.
The Anaconda Plan called for the blockade of all southern seaports and the control of the Mississippi.
To blockade the Southern ports.
They are the same thing. The press drew a cartoon of an anaconda, to indicate slow strangulation, and the Union's original war-plan was then nicknamed the Anaconda Plan (or the Anaconda).
the strategy that the union used was called the anaconda plan the anaconda plan was that the union would surround the confederate on all sides
No, Scott devised the Anaconda Plan: a blockade and starve strategy.
The original Anaconda Plan did call for, in part, a blockade of Confederate ports on its east and southern coasts. The blockade's effectiveness is disputed by historians. Much of the South's in and out shipping was able to run past the blockade by cover of night. Also, as the coastlines were huge, there could not be a total 100% blockade. It did, however, stop many ships from sailing into Southern ports.
They called it The Anaconda Plan.
The Anaconda Plan
The North used a strategy called the "Anaconda Plan". The plan was to set up a naval blockade along the eastern coast. The goal was to to block imports to the South and to strangle the South's economy. Hence, the name anaconda.
The Anaconda Plan affected slavery indirectly. It was a plan to blockade southern ports and prevent the Confederacy from receiving supplies and war material. The Anaconda Plan greatly weakened the southern economy during the Civil War and was one of the factors that led to its defeat, which ended slavery in the south.
The Anaconda Plan
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