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12 Cards in this Set
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What general's strategy to defeat the confederacy and what was the strategy called?
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Winfield Scott defeated the Confederacy and his plan was called the Anaconda plan.
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Under this plan what would the Union do to the South?
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Under this plan the Union would surround the South and crush it.
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What was one of the plans four parts?
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One of the plans four parts was to blockade the entire Southern coastline.
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To prevent what from happening (and is part of the Anaconda plan)?
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To prevent the South from shipping cotton or receiving needed supplies.
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What was another one of the plans four parts and why?
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Another part of the Anaconda plan was to seize control of the Mississippi River to cut the South off from the West.
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What was another one of the plans four parts and why?
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The third part of the Anaconda plan was to capture the Tennessee River valley and march through Georgia to the coast to further divide the South.
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What was last part of the plans four parts?
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The last part of the Anaconda plan was to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.
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Who captured what two forts and when and where did they capture them?
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Ulysses S. Grant and his large Union army captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February 1862 on the Tennessee River in northwestern Tennessee.
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The Union army captured how many men and a great deal of what in these attacks?
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The Union army captured 13,000 men and a great deal of valuable military equipment in these attacks.
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Who tried to break through what how many times?
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The south tried to break through the Union naval blockade several times.
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Who raised what ship, what was it called, and who had it belonged to?
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The Confederacy raised a sunken wooden ship, the Merrimac which had belonged to the Union.
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What did they plate the hull of the ship with, equip it with, and rename it?
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They plated the hull of the ship with iron, equipped it with guns, and renamed it the Virginia.
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