The correct answer is B. It was designed to squeeze the South from all sides like an anaconda.
Explanation
In the XIX century during the Civil War of the United States the Union headed by Winfield Scott created the Anaconda Plan that was about a siege to the Southern Confederacy through a blockade of the Mississippi and Tennessee river, this situation caused an economic squeeze against Confederacy because it was the principal access and exit for its products and both were closed. the Anaconda Plan was an important step to get the final victory in the Civil War, nevertheless, the Union needed an armed confrontation against Confederacy to win. Another characteristic is the name of the Plan, the Union proposed this name because the plan was related to an anaconda attack that wraps and presses its victim to death and similarly the plan aimed at enclosing and pressing the Confederates to defeat them. So, the correct answer is B. It was designed to squeeze the South from all sides like an anaconda.
