the southern states have made different decisions had they not been so confident “King Cotton” would force

diplomatic recognition of the Confederate States of America? Of course, it is not possible to definitively answer

these questions. We cannot roll back the clock and try a different scenario. We can, however, consider the monopoly

nature of these businesses and the roles they played and hypothesize about what might have occurred under

different circumstances.

Perhaps if there had been legal free tea trade, the colonists would have seen things differently. There was smuggled

Dutch tea in the colonial market. If the colonists had been able to freely purchase Dutch tea, they would have paid

lower prices and avoided the tax.

What about the cotton monopoly? With one in five jobs in Great Britain depending on Southern cotton and the

Confederate States as nearly the sole provider of that cotton, why did Great Britain remain neutral during the Civil
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