What Were The Hopes Of The Confederate Leaders Regarding Assistance From Foreign Powers During The American Civil War?
Having an agrarian economy, the Southern states mainly depended upon their agricultural produce, which earned them great revenues. A large part of these revenues was earned through exporting agricultural produce such as cotton. The Southern states used to export cotton to Great Britain and used slaves as free labor in the cotton fields. During the American Civil War, the Confederate leaders had hoped that Great Britain is going to provide its assistance to the Confederate army since Britain imported cotton from the Southern states (more precisely the Confederate States of America). For gaining the aegis of Great Britain in the American Civil War, the leaders of the Confederacy (more precisely President Jefferson Davis and the leader of the Confederate army General Lee) realized that the South had to win a major battle against the North to prove their strength and dominance in the Civil War, which would earn them the support of Great Britain.
