USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Anaconda Plan was a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War.

Detailed explanation-2: -So Lee hatches a plan to end the war. He will take his army into northern territory-into Pennsylvania-both to relieve Virginia of the burden of the war and to destroy the Union army in its own territory. Then, he believes, foreign powers will recognize the Confederacy.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -With the Siege of Vicksburg, Scott’s Anaconda Plan, designed at the beginning of the Civil War with the goal to blockade the southern ports and to cut the South in two by advancing down the Mississippi River, was complete.