War Strategies

Question 1

Grant’s Strategy

Answer 1

• capture Richmond
• invade Georgia and destroy the Confederate Army there
• seize Atlanta, the industrial and railroad center of the south

SUCCESSFUL

Question 2

Sherman and Total War

Answer 2

• The practice of destroying all military and civilian resources
• Union General William T.Sherman practice total war in his march across Georgia to the sea while doing this he captured and destroyed much of Atlanta–The reason Lincoln is elected to a second term in 1864

Question 3

The Civil War Ends where, who, how:

Answer 3

• on April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E.Lee (Commander of the northern army of Virginia) surrendered to Union General Ulysses S.Grant( Commander of the army of the Potomac)
• at Appomattox Courthouse

Question 4

Anaconda Plan

Answer 4

• Union plan proposed by Winfield Scott
• Divide south into 3 parts; crush each section
• Establish a naval blockade of southern ports using better naval power.
• southern trade with Britain and France suffered
• cut the South’s profits