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The southern states supplied the British with cotton, and it was thought that they needed the cotton and would back the south to keep it. The only,problem with this thinking was the British had wear houses filled with bales of American cotton and they didn't need more.

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Q: What was the reason Abraham Lincoln thought that the British might side with the Confederacy in the American Civil War?
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