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Title: Wartime Strategies


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Wartime Strategies
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The States on Each Side
  • The North (19 states)
  • Maine Vermont
  • Ohio Michigan
  • Iowa Wisconsin
  • Oregon New York
  • Illinois Rhode Island
  • Kansas California
  • New Jersey Minnesota
  • Connecticut W. Virginia
  • Massachusetts Indiana
  • Pennsylvania
  • New Hampshire
  • The South (11 states)
  • Virginia
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Georgia
  • Tennessee
  • Florida
  • Arkansas
  • Alabama
  • Mississippi
  • Louisiana
  • Texas

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Military Strategy
  • The North
  • Blockade the Confederate ports
  • Capture the Mississippi River
  • Capture Richmond, Virginia
  • Destroy the Confederate Army
  • Destroy Confederate farmland
  • The South
  • Play defense, play not to loose
  • Wear down the Union Army
  • Use swift raiders to capture Union ships

4
Political Strategy
  • The North
  • Pressure France and Britain to use cotton grown
    in Egypt instead of the Confederacy
  • The South
  • King Cotton Diplomacy
  • Hope that Britain and France would help break the
    blockade in order to get Confederate cotton

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Economic Strategy
  • The North
  • Use the blockade to keep the Confederacy from
    trading with Europe
  • The South
  • Use blockade runners to get important goods from
    Europe into the Confederacy
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