The abundance of European cotton and Britain's hostility to the institution of slavery, along with Lincoln's Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico naval blockades, severely decreased any chance that either Britain or France would enter the war.
Obilje pamuka u Europi i britansko neodobravanje ropstva skupa s Lincolnovom blokadom Atlantika i Meksičkog zaljeva umnogome su smanjili bilo kakvu šansu Britanije ili Francuske za ulazak u rat.