cut off supplies and weaken the country
blockading southern ports and cutting the confederacy in two by controlling the mississippi.
The Anaconda Plan consisted of: 1) Blockading Atlantic Ports of the Southern States, 2) Blockading the Gulf Ports, and 3) Seizing and Securing the Mississippi to deny its use to the enemy either through gunboat blockade or by an overland campaign. The plan authored by General Scott also included securing the Ohio River. In total the Plan was devised to squeeze the South into submission and hopefully the South would sue for peace seeing it had no hope. Lincoln rejected the Ohio River part of the PLan as not being practical.
The Merrimack, also known as the Virginia, was the first ironclad warship. It was created by the Confederacy in 1862 in order to retaliate against the Union Fleet blockading southern ports.
The purpose of mines in World War 1 were to undermine enemy defences, signall the start of an attack, or, in the case of the Hawthorn mine, to signall to an enemy that an attack is about to begin.
Blockading the Southern ports, to starve the South of war supplies from abroad. Liberating the Mississippi, to divide the Confederacy into two, isolating all armies to the West of the river.
Bigger population. More industry. A Navy capable of blockading enemy ports. An advantage in Artillery. A better president.
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Blockading the Southern ports.
The blockading of Southern ports. This was generally successful.
blockading southern ports and cutting the confederacy in two by controlling the mississippi.
By blockading the Southern ports and forbidding any cross-border trading.
Blockading the Southern ports. Liberating the Mississippi. Destroying the weakened Confederate armies.
The key element was the north blockading southern ports, preventing people or goods from being imported and/or exported
The key element was the north blockading southern ports, preventing people or goods from being imported and/or exported
The Anaconda plan
Their dependence on cotton worked against them, as the Union was blockading their ports, and thye could not export it in exchange for war supplies.
It was the Union Navy preventing the South from importing the war supplies it needed, having almost no manufacturing industry of its own.