Foreign Diplomacy in the Civil War
The Civil War caused both the North and the South to try to get help from England and France. These powerful countries could definitely help one side defeat the other. Both sides worked very hard to get the other one to join them. They caused a great deal of hardship to both sides and at the same time helped them in many ways. This will show how foreign diplomacy will effect the civil war in numerous occasions. In 1860 and 1861 American and Britain relations were the best they had been in 60 years. The Prince of Wales made a 29-day tour of the U.S. as a mark of friendship. England would be the focal point of the U.S. Lincoln wanted to keep England neutral because if they joined the confederacy British ironclads would have broken the blockade and fired at northern cities. They couldn't take the chance of the British joining the south so they kept them neutral. England thought the war was over slavery, which England had long been against. Newspapers in Britain favored the North. Lincoln feared saying the war was totally about slavery because if he did the crucial border states of Maryland. Kentucky, and Missouri would join the Confederacy, because they all had slavery and depended on it. He was then forced to say he
After this Charles Adams, an American diplomat, harassed London with a list of sinkings and burnings, with a bill for damage. Catton, Bruce. Reflections on the Civil War. Garden City, New York. Doubleday & Company Inc. 1981 The governor of Massachuset publicly expressed his satisfaction of what Captain Wilkes did. Wilkes was promoted. The secretary of the navy wrote him a letter telling him he did a good job, and the House of Representatives passed a vote of thanks to him. Lincoln was concerned about having to fight two people at once. The Alabama left at just the right time. The Union retrieved the documents from London and ordered the Alabama to come back but it was to late. The U.S. also was a growing commercial competitor and a menace to Canada and other British land's in the western hemisphere. If the U.S. split into two the South would have no tariff and sell it's cotton cheap to England and France, which had a huge textile industry. Senator Hammond of South Carolina said in 1858, "No, sir, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares make war upon it. Cotton is king." The Civil War also presented Europe with the best chance ever to take land in North America. If the U.S. was spilt into two countries they would fight with each other and be less inclined to fight with distant nations.
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