Which of the following did not happen to southern agriculture during the Civil War?
A) Wheat and corn production declined.
B) Planters continued to plant cotton rather than grow food.
C) There was a serious shortage of agricultural workers.
D) Cotton production declined.
E) Southern farmwives took control of their farms and encouraged their husbands to stay in the army.
Question 2
Why did Cotton Diplomacy fail?
A) The Confederacy overestimated Britain's dependence on southern cotton.
B) Northern border states were able to supply Great Britain with all the cotton it needed.
C) Union forces destroyed most of the South's cotton fields in 1861 and 1862.
D) All of these choices
E) None of these choices
