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8th Grade Social Studies

April 29, 2020

Grade/Course Lesson: 28

Objective/Learning Target: I can explain the Anaconda Plan and evaluate how effective it was in helping the North win the Civil War. Materials you will need for this lesson

During this lesson you will be asked to complete the activities listed on the right. Please make 1. Warm-Up sure you have a piece of paper 2. Activity and a pen/pencil to record your 3. Practice thinking as you navigate 4. Reflection through the lesson. Warm Up Warm Up Warm Up The Anaconda Plan: What you need to know…

The Anaconda Plan was the popular name given to a strategy employed by the Union during the . It consisted of a large-scale of ports in the South, combined with a Federal attack along the , aimed at splitting the Confederacy. The plan was suggested by , General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army. It received the name because of its relative passivity: the image conjured up was one of an anaconda slowly squeezing the life from its victim. Lesson Activity

● On a sheet of paper create a Anaconda Plan T-chart. ● Title the chart “Anaconda Plan” Objectives Outcomes ● Label the left side of the chart objectives and the right side outcomes. ● Your chart should look like the illustration to the right. Lesson Activity

Use the following articles about the Anaconda Plan anaconda plan to complete your T-chart. Objectives Outcomes

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Article 2 Lesson Activity- Answer Key

Objectives Outcomes

● Blockade all southern ports. ● The blockade led to a shortage of ● Advance down Mississippi River. resources in the south. ● Capture the Tennessee River ● Created a great mismatch of Valley. resources between the North ● Capture the Confederate capital; and South. Richmond, Virginia. ● This was a great showing of Grant’s ability to lead Union troops. ● Considerably shortened the war. Practice

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Goals B The goal was to keep the Union together.

Overall strategy A Anaconda plan was effective

Leadership C was effective, his generals were not.

Resources A The North had way more of every resource to fight a war with. Practice Practice

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Goals B The goal was to outlast the North.

Overall strategy C Defensive war, no overall strategy

Leadership A The South had Robert E Lee.

Resources D Except for cotton, the South had very little resources. Reflection

As you reflect on Grant’s Anaconda Plan, focus on the Objective and Outcome. Write 5 words that best describe Winfield Scott’s Anaconda Plan.