King Cotton Failed the South as a Tool of Wartime

Multiple Choice

King Cotton failed the South as a tool of wartime diplomacy because

A) Britain held surpluses of cotton when the war began.
B) textile workers in Britain favored the North.
C) the North sent captured cotton to Britain.
D) Britain developed alternative supplies of cotton in Egypt and India.
E) the cotton crop was devastated by the boll weevil.