Vicksburg was a Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River
The Anaconda Plan. The point of it was to cut off supplies from the south.
The Anaconda plan was a military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
They had the Anaconda Plan to surround the South and cut off their trade and divide them to weaken their economy.
The original proponent of the divide-and-conquer plan to win the Civil War was General Winfield Scott. A life-long soldier (and politician), Scott proposed a strategy to subjugate the South that was known as the Anaconda Plan, as it intended to strangle the South through a naval blockade and Union control of the Mississippi River, which would cut the South into two vulnerable (and weakened) halves.
There were mixed reviews by the North at the beginning of the Civil War that the Anaconda Plan was a viable plan. The plan was proposed by Winfield Scott, General-in-Chief.
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The Anaconda Plan
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The Anaconda Plan
The Anaconda Plan was created in 1861 when the Civil War started. The plan was put into action by Lieutenant General Winfield Scott.
Anaconda Plan
in the beginning of the war the union stragety was known as the anaconda plan
The Anaconda plan didn't propose anything. It was a military plan that was proposed by Winfield Scott. This was the Union;s plan to defeat the Confederacy at the beginning of the civil war and consisted of: 1) capturing Richmond, VA (the Confederate capitol) 2) training their army better 3) fighting into the deeper south 4) blockading the Confederate coast line
The original plan was nicknmed the Anaconda, because it was aimed at a slow strangling of the Confederacy.
The Anaconda Plan affected slavery indirectly. It was a plan to blockade southern ports and prevent the Confederacy from receiving supplies and war material. The Anaconda Plan greatly weakened the southern economy during the Civil War and was one of the factors that led to its defeat, which ended slavery in the south.