AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1861 1865
THE FIRST BATTLE OF BULL RUN
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The Strangle plan, 1. cut off trade 2. don’t let any trade come in or out and wait for them to starve.
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The Anaconda plan, 1. surround the south to cut off it’s trade 2. cutting the south into separate sections. 3.capture the capital.
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Richmond plan, 1. charge capital with all troops and units 2. force the south to surrender
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The three main steps of the Anaconda Plan were 1) surround the Confederacy by sea and by land blockades, 2) take control of the Mississippi River to cut Confederate forces in two, and 3) ambush and surround the Confederacy and their capital.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Anaconda Plan was a military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott in the outbreak of the Civil War. The plan consisted of a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, an attack down the Mississippi river, and constricting the South by Union land and naval forces.
Detailed explanation-4: -Scott’s Great Snake, published at the outset of the Civil War, humorously portrays General Winfield Scott’s “Anaconda Plan” to strangle the southern states by cutting off any imported supplies and halting cotton exports. Blockading fleets were also used on inland rivers to assist Union military operations.