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The Anaconda Plan, which called for a naval blockade of the South, designed to strangle off their supplies to wage war
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General Winfield Scott.
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The Anaconda Plan was created in 1861 when the Civil War started. The plan was put into action by Lieutenant General Winfield Scott.
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There were mixed reviews by the North at the beginning of the Civil War that the Anaconda Plan was a viable plan. The plan was proposed by Winfield Scott, General-in-Chief.
It called for a long, drawn-out war.
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).
Scotts anaconda plan was split into four parts. His first goal was to capture Richmond the South's capital. Next to capture the Mississippi river. Third to block all trading from foreign nations to the south. Last to conquer the inner lands o the south by dividing them in half