USA HISTORY

The Anaconda Plan called for all of the following except

(A) blockade of Southern ports

(B) dividing the South into two parts

(C) capturing Richmond Virginia the capitol of the South

(D) ** assassinating Jefferson Davis

Concept note-1: -Anaconda plan, 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.

Concept note-2: -His plan to defeat the Confederacy had three main parts: 1) Blockade all Eastern and Southern ports in the Confederate States. 2) Divide the South by taking control of the Mississippi River. 3) Control the Tennessee Valley and march through Georgia to the coast.

Concept note-3: -Anaconda Plan in the Civil War except a siege of Richmond by federal troops. Was this answer helpful?

Concept note-4: -The Anaconda Plan was the Union’s strategic plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War. The goal was to defeat the rebellion by blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi river. This would cut off and isolate the south from the outside world.