2. Why do you think the plan to get the Confederates to surrender was named after an Anaconda (a large black
snake)?

The Anaconda Plan is the name applied to a Union Army outline strategy for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. ... First, all ports in the seceding states were to be rigorously blockaded.

Explanation:

The Union, which had to conquer the South to win, devised a three-part plan: 1. the Union navy would blockade Southern ports, so they could neither export cotton nor import much-needed manufactured goods, 2. Union riverboats and armies would move down the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two, and 3. Union armies would capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia. After snake that suffocates its victims in its coils.