Document 8b
the british desire for raw cotton from india influenced the development of the british textile industry and
great britain’s relationship with india.
… inevitably, indian cotton had the makings of a contentious [controversial] political issue.
by depriving india of the fruits of its own labor, england all but guaranteed that the crop
would one day come to symbolize colonial subjugation [control] and provide a rallying point
against it. when that day finally arrived in the early 190os, a frail warrior with the heart of a
lion, mahatma gandhi, intertwined the destinies of homespun cotton and self-rule so adroitly
[skillfully] that he made one indistinguishable from the other. freedom became the cotton
cloth you wove and wore, a tangible [visible] protest against tyranny from abroad.…
source: stephen yafa, cotton: the biography of a revolutionary fiber, penguin books
according to stephen yafa, what effect did the british cotton textile industry have on india? [1]

3. republican abraham lincoln

4. south carolina

5. charleston, south carolina

6. confederates

7. minie bullet - made defense even safer, it spun faster, traveled further and was five times more accurate than any single-man weapon. able to kill at half a mile, it was the largest contributor to battle wounds

      or the the gatling gun - the most successful of several rapid-fire guns that were born before the war. its efficiency in killing only made war more deadly.

idk which one u learned about. pick one.

8. the south was fighting to maintain its way of life, whereas the north was fighting to maintain a union. so they had will, and the north were fighing on unfamiliar territory

9. union had the large population, people to fight in the war and work in the factories to make war materials, industrial base, the factories to make these war materials. the union also was wealthier than the confederacy and could finance the war.

10. stonewall jackson

11. chancellorsville

12. gettysburg

13. sherman

some of these might be wrong but i tried my best.   : )

i think the answer is: cuba wanted to be independent from spain, and the u.s. wanted to end spanish rule in the west.

hope i

-lavira : )