The Influence Of Diplomacy: Dethroning King Cotton

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Dethroning King Cotton
The Confederacy was hoping to receive foreign help, but their hopes didn’t happen.
Europeans were pro-Union/antislavery, an effect of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
The Confederacy assumed that low cotton supplies would mean there would be a huge demand for cotton, increasing their money.
However, England and France had surplus cotton that they could send to the Union.
India and Egypt were competition in the cotton business.
“King Wheat and King Corn” beat “King Cotton” because Europe needed food more than it needed cotton.
The Decisiveness of Diplomacy
In 1861, a Union warship forcibly removed 2 Confederate diplomats that were headed for Europe from a British mail steamer.
Britain threatened to wage war, but Lincoln released the prisoners, so everything turned out okay. …show more content…
Foreign Flare-Ups
Britain had 2 Laird rams that it could have sent to the Confederacy, but it didn’t because of the threat of war.
Instead, it used them for its Royal Navy.
Confederate agents tried to burn down American cities.
Some instances succeeded, and those instances caused some small armies to rise up and be sent to Canada.
These armies were mostly British-hating Irish Americans.
French Napoleon III installed a puppet gov’t in Mexico city.
Put Archduke Maximilian as the emperor, but he had to deal with the Mexican people shooting him later on, when Napoleon left.
President Davis Versus President Lincoln
The Confederacy was weak.
Jefferson Davis wasn’t very popular, and he overworked himself often.
Lincoln could work on leading an already established nation.
Limitations on Wartime Liberties
Lincoln did some questionable things while in office, such as illegally proclaiming a blockade, proclaiming acts without Congressional consent, and sending in troops to the Border
States.
He justified his actions by saying that such acts weren’t permanent, and that he had to do those things in order to preserve the
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