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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.
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
To blockade the Southern ports.
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.
Scott's strategy became known as the Anaconda Plan.
They called it The Anaconda Plan.
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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
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.
No, Scott devised the Anaconda Plan: a blockade and starve strategy.
The Anaconda Plan