Cotton Diplomacy

The South had a plan to press England and France into recognizing their nation; those countries needed cotton, and they had it.  Although the basic idea that Europe's first steps into industrialization would depend on Southern cotton, a few factors ruined the plan.  It might sound a little like a high school history lecture, but the Trent affair and Cotton Diplomacy were key to the South's path toward independence.

 

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