The_Anaconda_Plan

The Anaconda Plan

The Anaconda Plan was a plan put into effect by the north to squeeze all of the resources out of the Confederates. In order to do this they needed to make a barrier covering all of their escape routes and quite literally Strangling the South. The Plan was to go by water and cut of the flow of southern resources in and out. We traveled down the coast and into the gulf of Mexico. From there we went up the Tennessee river valley to cut the confederacy in half. From there the confederacy created blockade runners, to get around the blockades.
 * Blockade the South's ports so they can't sell or trade cash crops, and to keep them from getting much needed war supplies.
 * Divide the south by controlling the Mississippi river and, to cut of the south from the west.
 * Divide the South by capturing the Tennessee river valley and marching from Georgia to the coast.
 * Capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate states of America

Winfield Scott was the military genius behind this plan. The whole point of this plan was to end the war in favor of the Union. He was the General in Chief of the Union Army.

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Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States of America During the civil war. His entire presidency was in war time. He was the man that gave the OK for the Anaconda plan. In the year 1863, On January 1 st, he signed and put into effect the Emancipation Proclamation. This Bill freed all slaves in the United States, northern or southern. Soon after the war ended Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford Theater by John Wilx Booth.

Blockade Runners
Blockade runners were small confederate steamships designed to get past the Anaconda Plan

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