The first ever use of cotton was in manchester in 1738 but it was not untill 1781 when they first started selling it at market.
Most of Britain's cotton came from its colonies in India and later from the southern United States during the Industrial Revolution. The demand for cotton textiles and the expansion of the cotton industry in Britain drove the need for a steady supply of raw cotton.
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Usually by ship.
Britain helped Texas because Britain supported it. Britain saw it as an economic opportunity that would provide more land for growing cotton. This would be beneficial to Britain, as it would take away some of the Independence from America's cotton. At the time, a large percentage of Britain's economy was based on cotton. Another benefit for Britain is that it stopped the southward expansion of the United States.
from a cotton plant then got shipped to Britain and some other countries.
Britain found other countries with the same resources like Egypt for cotton
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The South and Britain had a cotton trade going at the time of the civil war. If Britain supported the North, the South would have cut of the supply of cotton to Britain. Britain though, actually was in favor of antislavery.
Cotton diplomacy refers to the diplomatic methods employed by the South during the American Civil War to coerce Great Britain and France to support the Southern war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against Great Britain and Europe