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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HPilot who wrote (21845)	2/27/2008 4:10:02 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224655

Cotton was king in England as well during the late 1700s into the 1800s. The factories in the English midlands (Lancashire, Nottingham, Derby) imported large quantities of American cotton as the Industrial Revolution gained steam. The energy fueling those factories was coal. As a result of the Union's cotton embargo in the 1860s, the English economy collapsed--factories and coal mines closed. Economic hardship sent a multitude of immigrants to US shores at the time. As laborers in a vital industry the coal miners had military exemption, many of the other new arrivals were paid by American citizens to fulfill their military obligation.