Blockading the Southern ports.
Liberating the Mississippi.
Destroying the weakened Confederate armies.
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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.
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The Anaconda Plan.
secure the capital
The drawbacks of the plan was that it would take some time to become effective.
anaconda plan
It was called the Anaconda Plan. It has three strategies. 1. capture Richmond 2. split Confederates in 2 by gaining the Mississippi River 3. blockade the South
The Anaconda Plan. The point of it was to cut off supplies from the south.
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.
Anaconda Plan
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.
to take over the mouth and the river of the Mississippi, and Tennessee rivers, to take over Richmond, and blockade the south
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).
the anaconda plan happen in the 1890's.
the Anaconda Plan.
Even today, the importance of the Anaconda Plan is a matter of debate.
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