At the beginning of the civil war, southerners expressed all of the following expectations except:
(a) the materialism of the north would prevent northerners from fighting an idealistic war.
(b) great britain would intervene on the side of the south in order to preserve its source of cotton.
(c) northern unity in the struggle against the southern states would eventually break.
(d) the economic and military resources of the south would outlast those of the north.
(e) the justice of the south’s cause would prevail.