[relaxing]

So the South produced cheap goods… where did they go? Who benefitted from being able to buy underpriced agricultural products?

[hirvi74]

Predominately England though France did benefit some as well.

[relaxing]

Well yes, because the South supplied the majority of the world’s cotton, and the European powers were larger economies at the time.

But the textile mills in the Northern states also got their cotton predominantly from the South. Not to mention the tobacco, rice, etc.