Only by using blockade-runners, and a certain amount of highly illegal cross-border trading with the North.
Cotton.
cotton
the south lost the war...
Cotton and drugs
the major crop prior to the civil war was cotton
Cotton was a main product of the South. When Europeans didn't buy the South's main source of money for the war was cut off.
Cotton
Cotton Diplomacy is when the south tried to convince England to support the Civil war with cotton but they said no.
The greatest resource was cotton. During the civil war, the South traded cotton for guns and other supplies. The South also withheld cotton shipments to Britain to convince them to help them fight in the Civil War. This was called the Cotton Diplomacy.
The cotton gin
To prevent the South from exporting its plentiful cotton in exchange for war supplies.
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