"King Cotton" Failed the South as a Tool of Wartime

question 15

Multiple Choice

"King Cotton" failed the South as a tool of wartime diplomacy partly because

• A) Britain held large surpluses of cotton when the war began.
• B) the British elite had long resented the aristocratic pretensions of southern planters.
• C) poor harvests over the late 1850s and early 1860s drastically reduced the South´s cotton production.
• D) Britain developed alternative supplies of cotton in South Africa and Australia.
• E) the cotton crop was devastated by the boll weevil.

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