I believe the answer is: E. Anaconda Plan
Through the anaconda plan, the union planned to block out the southern ports in order to cut out the confederates' food and weaponaries supply.
This would reduce both the will power and millitary power of the confederates which help the union army to obtain early boost in the civil war.<span />
The appropriate response is 1 and 2. Grant's hard-won triumph at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in May of 1863 was a key showstopper. Combined with the Northern triumph at Gettysburg, the catch of Vicksburg denoted the defining moment in the war. It additionally made Grant the head administrator in the Federal armed force.
