The correct answer is B. The Union's main strategy during the Civil War was to blockade all major southern ports. It was called the "Anaconda Plan", and was proposed by Major General Winfield Scott. It emphasized the blockade of the ports in the south, and added an advance down the Mississippi River to divide the Confederate states into two. Since the blockade would be rather passive, it was ridiculed by those who wanted more active warfare. But at the end, the blockade prooved to be effective, and people compared it to the bowels of an anaconda that suffocated its victim.
C.) It is a secret route that slaves took to escape from Southern slave states to the North. Even though Harriet Tubman started this, it wasn't to help slaves become free it was to help them escape so it's C
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