The theory held that control over cotton exports would make a proposed independent Confederacy economically prosperous, would ruin the textile industry of New England, and-most importantly-would force the United Kingdom and perhaps France to support the Confederacy militarily because their industrial economies depended on Southern cotton. " King Cotton" is a slogan that summarized the strategy used before the American Civil War (of 1861–1865) by secessionists in the southern states (the future Confederate States of America) to claim the feasibility of secession and to prove there was no need to fear a war with the northern states. Panoramic photograph of a cotton plantation from 1907, titled "King Cotton" For other uses, see King Cotton (disambiguation).
0 kommentar(er)
