Answer:
The correct answer is C. It is not true that the Anaconda Plan resulted in the construction of southern blockades which were ineffective.
Explanation:
The Anaconda Plan is an informal name for a plan to fight the Confederation, which was developed at the beginning of the Civil War in the United States and involved the blockade of southern ports and the establishment of control over the Mississippi River.
The plan was proposed by General Winfield Scott, who, unlike many contemporaries, did not believe in a quick end to the war. The loud name of the plan was invented by journalists. Like the anaconda, which was compressing its body, the numerous northerners army and navy were supposed to break the connection between the eastern and western parts of the Confederation, capturing the Mississippi, and stifle the trading activity of the rebel states, which depended on shipments of industrial goods by sea. The passive nature of the proposed actions did not suit the supporters of a quick attack, but ultimately the northerners were forced to accept the plan proposed by Scott and resort to a sea blockade of the rebel states. Historians of subsequent generations dispute the reasonableness of the plan, the degree of its implementation and the real benefits of the ocean blockade, but the strategy itself remained in the public mind and perception of the war, not least due to its figurative name.
