Question

All the following were aspects of the Union's military strategy to win the Civil War EXCEPT:

• A. Preventing the Confederacy from using the Mississippi River to travel north or receive supplies in trade
• B. Capturing the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia
• C. Blockading Southern ports to prevent exporta tion and importation of goods
• D. Controlling the railroad system
• E. Establishing a military alliance with Great Britain and France

Answer 1

The correct option is E Establishing a military alliance with Great Britain and France

a. They had the control over the Mississippi River. The river was the South's major inland waterway. Also, Northern control of the rivers would separate Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas from the other Confederate states.

b. They Capture Richmond. Without its capital, the Confederacy's command lines would be disrupted.

c. They fully blockade all Southern coasts. This strategy, known as the anaconda plan, would eliminate the possibility of Confederate help from abroad.

d. The control of railroad was one of the major strategies. During their march through Georgia, the military army instructed their men to tear up Southern railroad tracks, heat them, and then bend them around trees and poles.