Explain what the Union navy and army did to put each of the three steps of the Anaconda Plan into action from 1861 to 1862. Refer to your diagram from Section 2 to remind you of each step of the plan.

The Anaconda Plan was the Union's strategic plan to defeat the Confederacy at the start of the American Civil War. The main purpose of the Anaconda plan was to defeat the rebellion by blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi river. This would cut off and isolate the south from the outside world. the military strategy of the north was fourfold: to blockade southern ports to cut off supplies from Europe, to break the confederacy in two at the Mississippi River, to destroy the transportation and communication systems of the confederacy thus crippling morale and to attack the confederate capital at Richmond.