The South Believed That Britain Would Come to Its Aid

Multiple Choice

The South believed that Britain would come to its aid because

A) ordinary British people would sympathize with its fight for independence.
B) British Canada was strongly hostile to the Union.
C) the British recognized the economic need for slavery.
D) the government had refused to allow Uncle Tom's Cabin to be sold within the British Empire.
E) Britain was economically dependent on Southern cotton.