This editorial cartoon refers to the “anaconda plan” that was part of the strategy of what conflict?

 The US Civil War

[Note: It would be nice if you showed us the editorial cartoon you mentioned. I've attached an 1861 cartoon map, but I'm not sure that's the same image you were seeing.]

The Anaconda Plan uses the term "anaconda," which is a large type of boa snake which squeezes the life out of its victims.  As a military strategy, the Anaconda Plan was proposed by Union General Winfield Scott, proposing a blockade of the coastline of the Confederate states.

b. the passage of the equal rights amendment  

explanation:

this mean that anything that someone else could do they could do

an early twentieth-century ad for model home blueprints