Step 1 of the Anaconda plan was to completely blockade all ports that were in any way related to the southern territories. They wanted to prevent them from getting help from outsider countries such as European countries which were willing to help the Southerners at the time. By blocking all ports, they would prevent them from ever leaving the territory. This step was conducted by the Navy.
Step 2 was about cutting it off from help from the Americas. It was about a continental blockade where the southerners would be surrounded from all sides, from Northern states in the north, to northern blockades in the East and West. They would occupy and block things like railroads or similar roads and would prevent anything from getting in or going out of the territory.<span />
One piece of information that the geographer might be able to convey more clearly than the economic historian would be exactly how geographic features such as mountains and lakes influenced the rise of certain societies.
Naturalization is the process that if you provide all the paper work needed you can become a legal U.S. citizen and vote under law federally. The process is fair because there are many steps before hand that allow other citizens to have temporary citizenship or permanent citizenship with limitations, such as a visa or a green card.
They made sure that no black person, nor woman, would be able to put their votes in the box.
