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The Anaconda Plan

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Monday, July 27, 2009

General-in-Chief Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan was a strategy to blockade the South by sea, and gain control of the Mississippi River. This would split the South, and eventually deprive it economically.

Slavery

By Jonathan R. Allen - Last updated: Friday, November 16, 2007

Until the cleansing of the Civil War, slavery was a fact in the United States. The bloodshed of the Civil War brought an end to slavery and kept this nation as an undivided union of states.