1. CIVIL WAR STRATEGIES North-Anaconda Plan South-King Cotton Diplomacy

2. ANACONDA PLAN: -General Winfield Scott -Blockade -Patience -Capture Mississippi River As War Progressed: -Capture Richmond (CSA Capital) -Destroys Confederate armies -No Civilian support for war

3. LINCOLN: -Diplomatic suicide -Confederate Sovereign Nation Foreign Nations FORIEIGN NATIONS: -Diplomatic relations with Confederacy -Offend countries trading with Confederacy -Infuriate foreign nations

4. BLOCKADE: -Navy Secretary Gideon Weeles -3500/4000 miles of coast -From 82-600 ships

5. KING COTTON DIPLOMACY: -International recognition -European powers breaking blockade -Cotton in England and France from South -Embargo MORE SOUTHERN STRATEGIES: -Wear down Union army -Use raiders(fast and lightly armed ships) to capture Merchant ships and draw Union navy away. -650 private blockade runners (9 out of 10 made it 1861) -By 1863, 1 out of 4 blockade runners caught

6. GREAT BRITAIN: -Too much cotton -Hostility to slavery -Not in interest to denounce blockade SOUTH: -Produce all cotton and food -Cotton revenue for supplies -Whites would fight/slaves grow cotton -Grow more food/less cotton -Large plantations barely cut cotton production. However, smaller Farmers cut cotton by half to grow food