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reignited the slavery conflict in regards to all the territories newly acquired from mexico
The Anaconda Plan affected slavery indirectly. It was a plan to blockade southern ports and prevent the Confederacy from receiving supplies and war material. The Anaconda Plan greatly weakened the southern economy during the Civil War and was one of the factors that led to its defeat, which ended slavery in the south.
At the beginning of the Civil War the northern goal was simply to restore the Union at all costs. Slavery became the main issue in the following years of the war but the goal at the start was to save the Union!
It took four years of war and the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the United States to finally end slavery in America.
No one in their right mind, can say or prove that slavery had nothing to do with the American Civil War. In American History, it's plain to see that slavery was a major reason of why the Civil War was fought for 4 long and hard years.