What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan?
1 Answer
Aug 1, 2016
Strangulation. The Anaconda Plan was proposed by General in Chief Winfield Scott as the guiding strategy for the North during the American Civil War 1861 to 1865.
Explanation:
The aim was to blockade all Southern Ports and move forces down the Mississippi to split the Eastern Confederacy from Texas and strangle the South. Thus the name Anaconda after the large constrictor snake.
The South was an agrarian economy without the manufacturing capacity of the North. The South would lose without enough supplies of Arms and other manufactured goods to keep its armies in the field. The Civil War would be a war of attrition. The basics of the plan were quickly accepted by Union leadership.
