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

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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