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Question 3

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Confederate President Jefferson Davis believed Europe would recognize the
Confederacy as an independent country because
Southern cotton was important to the textile mills of England.
No European nations had eliminated slavery so they would side with the South
Davis was Secretary of State and had good relations with England.
The South had many immigrants from Europe so they were closely connected.

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True the south produced so much cotton if they didn't support the south they would cut off ties with them and England's financial market would crash

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