Anaconda Plan

(noun)

The Anaconda Plan or Scott's Great Snake is the name widely applied to an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states in the American Civil War.

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Examples of Anaconda Plan in the following topics:

  • The Atlantic Theater

    • His strategy, part of General Winfield Scott's "Anaconda Plan," required the closure of 3,500 miles (5,600 km) of the Confederate coastline, as well as twelve major ports.
    • The Anaconda Plan, or "Scott's Great Snake," was an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states.
    • Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott , the plan emphasized the blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River in order to split the South.
    • An 1861 cartoon map of the blockade, known as Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan.
    • Describe the effects of the Union Blockade and the greater Anaconda Plan of the Atlantic Theater.

  • Naval Actions

    • His strategy, part of the Anaconda Plan of General Winfield Scott, required the closure of 3,500 miles of Confederate coastline and 12 major ports.
    • Early battles in support of the Anaconda Plan included the Blockade of the Chesapeake Bay (May–June 1861) and the Blockade of the Carolina Coast (August–December 1861).

  • The Battles: 1863–1865

    • Army, devised the Anaconda Plan to win the war with as little bloodshed as possible.
    • Lincoln adopted the plan, but overruled Scott's warnings that his new army was not ready for an offensive operation in order to satisfy public demand for an immediate attack.

  • The Cripple Creek Miners' Strike of 1894

    • Along with the towns of Altman, Anaconda, Arequa, Goldfield, Elkton, Independence, and Victor, Cripple Creek lay in a deep valley about 20 miles from Colorado Springs on the southwest side of Pikes Peak.

  • The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

    • The Plan was largely the creation of State Department officials such as George F.
    • The Marshall Plan was originally scheduled to end in 1953.
    • American Republicans hostile to the plan had also gained seats in the 1950 Congressional elections, and conservative opposition to the plan was revived.
    • One of a number of posters created to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe.
    • Assess the role of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan in the escalating Cold War

  • The Virginia and New Jersey Plans

    • The New Jersey plan was created in response to the Virginia Plan, which called for two houses of Congress both elected with apportionment according to population.
    • Large states supported this plan and smaller states generally opposed it.
    • The plan proposed:
    • Ultimately, the Virginia Plan was used, but some ideas from the New Jersey Plan were added.
    • House of Representatives, apportioned by population as desired by the Virginia Plan, and the Senate, granted equal votes per state as desired by the New Jersey Plan.

  • The Healthcare Plan of 1993

    • The Clinton health care plan was a 1993 healthcare reform package proposed by the administration of President Bill Clinton and closely associated with the chair of the task force devising the plan, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
    • However, opposition to the reform plan was heavy from conservatives, libertarians, and the health insurance industry.
    • Democrats, instead of uniting behind the President's original proposal, offered a number of competing plans of their own.
    • The Clinton health plan required each U.S. citizen and permanent resident alien to become enrolled in a qualified health plan and forbade their dis-enrollment until covered by another plan.
    • It listed the minimum coverage and maximum annual out-of-pocket expenses for each plan.

  • The Albany Congress and the Intercolonial Defense

    • Benjamin Franklin proposed a plan for uniting the seven colonies that greatly exceeded the scope of the congress.
    • The original plan was heavily debated by all who attended the conference, and numerous modifications were proposed until the plan proceeded to be passed unanimously.
    • The delegates voted approval of a plan that called for a union of 12 colonies.
    • The Union Plan included all of the British colonies in North America, except Delaware and Georgia.
    • The plan was also rejected by the Colonial Office.

  • Civil Rights Under Nixon

    • The task force's plan made federal aid and official meetings with President Nixon available as rewards for school committees who complied with desegregation plans.
    • The Philadelphia Plan was based on an earlier plan developed in 1967 by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance and the Philadelphia Federal Executive Board.
    • The plan was quickly extended to other cities.
    • The Philadelphia Plan was challenged in the lawsuit Contractors' Association of Eastern Pennsylvania v.
    • Shultz, et al, but the court upheld the plan and the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal.

  • A New Constitution

    • This plan also proposed a bicameral legislature.
    • This system of equal representation was detailed in William Paterson's New Jersey Plan.
    • This plan proposed a unicameral legislature in which each state, regardless of size, would have one vote.
    • New Jersey Plans was contentious and almost threatened to shut the convention down.
    • The Compromise indicated that each state would be given equal representation (as per the New Jersey Plan) in one house of Congress and proportional representation (as per the Virginia Plan) in the other.