What is the anaconda plan?

Answer 1

Controlling the Mississippi river.

Answer 2

The Anaconda Plan was a strategy proposed by General-in-Chief, Winfield Scott, for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. The strategy was to blockade the southern ports and advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.

Answer 3

During the American Civil War, the "Anaconda Plan" was important as it provided the Union with a clear set of goals for their military movements. While the basic plan was often ignored by leaders at various levels, it nonetheless was in fact carried out through the many campaigns on land and at sea, in the east and in the west, that were waged by Union forces.

Answer 4

It was the plan put forward at the outbreak of war by the Union General-in-Chief, Winfield Scott, who was one of the few men who realised it would be a long war.

It was aimed at starving the enemy of the imported goods it depended on, then liberating the Mississippi, to split the Confederacy in two, and finally sending in the armies to destroy its weakened forces.

The press ridiculed it for its slowness, and compared it to the slow constriction of an anaconda's prey. Yet in the end, the Union did pursue a plan very like it.

It remains an interesting case of clear insight by a General who was far too old for combat, yet could still read a military situation with great skill.

Answer 5

The Anaconda Plan is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War. Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports, and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two. Because the blockade would be rather passive, it was widely derided by the vociferous faction who wanted a more vigorous prosecution of the war, and who likened it to the coils of a anaconda suffocating its victim. The snake image caught on, giving the proposal its popular name.

Answer 6

this would help the north win the war 1. it blockaded the south

2. it seized control of the Mississippi River

3. it captured the Tennessee River

4. it captured Richmond, the Confederate capitol

Answer 7

It was called the Anaconda Plan, because it was supposed to squeeze the life slowly out of the Confederacy.

It was ridiculed because it appeared to be far too slow, at a time when almost everybody was expecting a short, glorious war.

Answer 8

The North used this plan against the South during the American Civil War. It was a strategy that defeated the South by forming a naval blockade and captured the Mississippi River.

Answer 9

the Anaconda plan was created by the north and

blocked off places where the south could get some supplies