1. Strategies

2. How did the strategies of the North and South differ?

3. The Union had a 3 part strategy2 3 1

4. Strategy #1
They set up a blockade in the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.

5. Strategy #2
Capture territory along the Mississippi River.

6. Strategy #3
Attack from the east and west sides.

7. This plan was known as the Anaconda Plan because they were going to squeeze the Confederacy like …
an anaconda!

8. The Confederacy believed that they only had to defend their territory until the North became tired and gave up. They thought that their soldiers had more to fight for. The Confederacy also believed that the British would support them because of their need for cotton.