Slaves were expensive and cotton was a very hard crop to raise and maintaine. If a harvest of cotton failed it would negativiley impant the Souths economy.
It was called the King Cotton Diplomacy because A 'King' is in charge of everything and the south believed that if they didn't sell their cotton to Britain and France, then they would be forced to help break the North's blockades which is what a 'King' can do. The cotton part is obvious and 'diplomacy' international trade and trading with France and Britain is international. which is why it is called the King Cotton Diplomacy. Don't try to argue with me :) its in the S.S teachers textbook. :)
Reconstruction Plan.
traditional lifestyle
Many before and after the war were white supremacists.
it was very useful
this was the souths most important cotton market port
because
The souths "cash crop" was tobacco and cotton
yes, it was. they needed the slaves to harvest their crops, such as cotton
South was depending too much on cotton.And I think that they needed a new investment which would explain why they depended on the cotton.
Slaves were expensive and cotton was a very hard crop to raise and maintaine. If a harvest of cotton failed it would negativiley impant the Souths economy.
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.
It was called the King Cotton Diplomacy because A 'King' is in charge of everything and the south believed that if they didn't sell their cotton to Britain and France, then they would be forced to help break the North's blockades which is what a 'King' can do. The cotton part is obvious and 'diplomacy' international trade and trading with France and Britain is international. which is why it is called the King Cotton Diplomacy. Don't try to argue with me :) its in the S.S teachers textbook. :)
They thought their cotton could be exchanged for war supplies, but the blockade soon stopped that. Apart from that, they had plentiful slave labour, but mostly on cotton plantations. It could not be deployed in aid of the war effort.
The North had little cotton for there Textile Mills The South had little manufactured goods and food (yes the majority of the Nations food was grown in the North) the north however managed to come out the war with some economic growth were as the souths economy crashed and burned
landowners grew more than cotton