War Strategy of the North
The Northern states strategy is called the Anaconda Plan. When the North and South went to war, the North realized that the only way to claim victory and make the U.S. be united again was to invade the Southern states. They started by blockading the ports in the Southern states to cut off trade. By the end of the year of 1861, most ports were blocked. The Southern states couldn't import significant supplies or export cotton and other cash crops to Europe. After they divided the Confederacy they took control of the Mississippi River by capturing Vicksburg. the last step was to capture Richmond, Virginia the confederacy's capitol. They call this the anaconda plan with good reason because they compared it to the way and anaconda kills its prey by choking every thing off than going for the head and than proceeding to eat it this is comparable to their war strategy because they choked the south off by cutting of ports and splitting them in half than they went for the confederacy's capitol and once Richmond was took they went farther south disarming what little of the confederacy's armies their where.