King Cotton Failed the South as a Tool of Wartime

question 50

Multiple Choice

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

• A) Britain held surpluses of cotton when the war began.
• B) textile workers in Britain favored the North.
• C) the North sent captured cotton to Britain.
• D) Britain developed alternative supplies of cotton in Egypt and India.
• E) the cotton crop was devastated by the boll weevil.

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