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The Anaconda Plan was Gen.Winfield Scott's strategic plan for the North, not for the South. It consisted of blockading southern seaports and capturing the river ports of the Mississippi River. The South did not have an articulated war policy. It is one of their greatest failings.
Because it was aimed at slowly squeezing the life out of the Confederacy. The press and the public ridiculed it, but in the end Lincoln was forced to adopt a plan that was very similar.
The Anaconda Plan.
secure the capital
The drawbacks of the plan was that it would take some time to become effective.
the Anaconda Plan.
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The Anaconda Plan.
The North.
They both had a plan The north had the anaconda plan The south had the cotton diplomacy
The Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan was Gen.Winfield Scott's strategic plan for the North, not for the South. It consisted of blockading southern seaports and capturing the river ports of the Mississippi River. The South did not have an articulated war policy. It is one of their greatest failings.
i think it the anaconda plan/act
No one knows if the Anaconda plan changed the outcome of the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation ended overt assistance of the South by England and France. It made Black men part of the Union Army. The South developed its own factories. Sherman's destruction of the South's internal transportation network probably did more damage than the Anaconda plan. If you can get goods to the port of Apalachicola, Florida, which was not closed, and from there to Columbus, Georgia, but the railroads from Columbus, Georgia to the rest of the South to everywhere else have been destroyed, it does not do Lee's army a bit of good.
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).
It was Called The Anaconda Plan
to get the south trapped, and they would eventually run out of supplies and give in