Question

Who proposed the Anaconda Plan?
What was the Anaconda Plan?
Why were other Union generals opposed to the Anaconda Plan?
What were the two main objectives of the Anaconda Plan?
What was the purpose of the blockade?
Why did the North want to control the Mississippi River?
In your opinion, was the Anaconda Plan an effective military strategy?

Answer 1

Answer: Proposed by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized a Union blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.

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