USA HISTORY

Key to the Union defeat was Pope’s hesitation in making decisions on the battlefield. Other Union commanders were also slow to come to his aid, much to the frustration of President Lincoln.

(A) ** True

(B) False

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: -Lincoln expressed repeated frustration with the inability of his armies to march as light and fast as Confederate armies. Much better supplied than the enemy, Union forces were actually slowed down by the abundance of their logistics.

Concept note-3: -Gettysburg ended Confederate general Robert E. Lee’s ambitious second quest to invade the North and bring the Civil War to a swift end. The loss there dashed the hopes of the Confederate States of America to become an independent nation.

Concept note-4: -Jackson’s defeat of general popes union forces at the second battle of bull run affected Lee’s plans by not getting the chance to stop the pope before he had a chance to meet up with McClellans army.