Union Blockade & Emancipation Proclamation

Who created the Anaconda plan?

• Confederate General Winfield Scott

• Union General Winfield Scott

• US President Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott

Which statement describes Scott's reason for creating the Anaconda Plan?

• The North wanted to cut off the south's supplies from foreign countries

• The South wanted to constrict the North's supplies from foreign countries

• The North wanted to constrict the south's supply of slaves

The Union Blockade was a smaller part of the ........

• Constrictor plan

• War of 1812

• Revolutionary War

• Anaconda Plan

Which resource did the Union (North) use to blockade the south's coastlines?

• railroads

• soldiers on foot

• ships/boats

• forts

Which statement describes why the south had to trade cotton for weapons during the Civil War?

• the south could not afford to make its own weapons due to war debt

• the south did not have many factories to make weapons

• the south did not workers to work in factories to make weapons

Although some southerners risked their lives carrying supplies into the south on "blockade runners", the south still had little supplies. Why was this?

• the blockade runners could only carry a small amount of supplies

• the blockade runners could only carry people in and out of the south

• the blockade runners were expensive to build and only a small amount of the ships were made

True or False? A lot of people supported the Union Blockade at the beginning of the Civil War.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which is NOT a way the Union Blockade hurt the south?

• slaves in the south were near starvation

• the economy in the south stopped

• the south lacked the supplies needed for war

• soldiers did not have enough food

When was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?

• Before the Civil War

• During the Civil War

• After the Civil War

In the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln declared that slaves in "states of rebellion" would be freed on January 1, 1863. Which answer choice correctly describes the states in rebellion?

• the southern states or the Confederacy

• the south or the Union

• the Union or northern states

• the entire USA