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1. Why did people call General Scott's plan of attack The Anaconda Plan?

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Began with a powerful move down the Mississippi River to dominate it and eventually split the Confederacy into two parts. It was called the Anaconda to resemble how the Union planned to choke the Confederacy, just like and Anaconda chokes it's prey

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