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What country did the South try to get war supplies from in exchange for cotton during the US Civil War?
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The South was able to procure war material in exchange for cotton through several means, including running blockade runners to the Port of Nassau in the Bahamas and St. George in Bermuda where warehouses were erected for such purposes by Southern and British private businessmen. In addition Texas cotton was taken through Mexico through the port of Matamoros at the mouth of the Rio Grande. The Confederacy also maintained agents in London and Liverpool to directly purchase war material and ships. at least 25 blockade runners and 2 armored cruisers (the most notable being the CSS Alabama) were procured in this manner. Warships could not be fitted out with weaponry in England and so were sailed to the Azores where they were armed with cannon. At the beginning of the conflict Southern Agents were also able to purchase war material from Belgium, France and Austria-Hungary which could be easily shipped to Southern ports before the Union blockade was firmly established. Payment was facilitated by British, Dutch and French banks which had already acted as "factors" for the cotton trade since the time of the American Revolution. As a follow-up of the question: Did the cotton production cease after the war? No. Cotton is still grown in the South and in states in the "Sun belt" that extends through Texas and Arizona. Cotton requires a long season of warm weather that is only available in these southern states. Besides the "sunbelt" cotton is still commericially viable in South Carolina, central Georgia, Alabama and especially the Mississippi delta from Memphis to New Orleans, all bastions of the "Old South"
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To prevent them from exporting their plentiful cotton in exchange for much-needed war supplies.
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The Union naval blockade, which prevented the Confederacy from exporting its plentiful cotton in exchange for war-supplies. This crippled the Southern economy.
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poland
What economic problems did the north have during the civil war?
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What is a factor that historians believe contributed to the North's victory during the US Civil War?
They had a big enough Navy to blockade the Southern coast, to prevent them exporting their plentiful cotton for war supplies.
