It had to invade the self-styled Confederate nation, which could claim that it didn't want a war. This would mean selecting Generals who had the urge to destroy enemy forces, and this took Lincoln some time. The other big imperative was to maintain the naval blockade, to prevent the South from exporting their cotton in exchange fo was-supplies.
The CSA's economy was almost completley built on agriculture and importaiton/exportation of resources. With the plan that general Winfield Scott developed, the North hoped to cripple the South economically and bring them to their knees
Simply, it could manufacture all manner of war-supplies, including the latest rifle-barrelled artillery, while the agricultural South was increasingly unable to import anything, because of the Unon Naval blockade.
the north was totally invaded by the south and the north totally invaded the south. the north was going to blockade the south and then invade it. The south was going to ware down the north and then invade it
because the north didn't['t want to effort weapons
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The Naval blockade
Blockades on Southern ports were set up in the Anaconda Plan. This plan was to use naval vessels to block all ports within the Confederates States. If they could not get their cotton out to market then they could not bring in any supplies.
The Naval blockade of Southern ports.
Effective naval blockade of principal ports, and control of the Mississippi River
The Anaconda Plan - constricting the life out of the Confederacy
The South could neither manufacture nor import anything like the amount of war supplies it needed.
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.
One thing that was done was the placement of a Naval blockade,which greatly reduced the ability of southern ships to come or go at southern ports.
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That was the plan for the North to blockade the Southern ports and starve the Confederacy of supplies from abroad, then march into the weakened nation with large armies and force surrender.
During the Civil War, the goals for the Union were to create a naval blockade on southern ports, gain control of the Mississippi River, and take over the Confederates capitol of Richmond, Virginia.