Question

Walter Burling smuggled seeds of a variety of this crop into the US inside dolls while on a mission from James Wilkinson to alert the Mexican government about the Burr conspiracy. A series of Charles Minard flow maps illustrates how European markets increasingly imported this good from India (20[1]0[1])in the 1860s. (20[5])William (20[3])Thayer (20[3])worked (20[1])with (0[1])the viceroy (20[2])Sa’id Pasha (20[1])to promote (20[1]0[1])production of this good (20[1])in (20[1])(*) Egypt (10[2])to relieve (10[2])a (10[1])so-called (10[3])“famine” of it in Lancashire. (10[1])Beginning (10[1])in the late 18th century, an upland variety of this crop replaced (10[1])the delicate Sea Island variety. This was the primary (0[1])crop blockaded in the Anaconda Plan. (10[1])For 10 points, what crop was nicknamed (10[1])“King” for its central role in the economy (10[1])of the American South? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: cotton [accept varieties of cotton such as Petit Gulf cotton or Sea Island cotton]
<Ryan Rosenberg, History - American - Pre-1865&gt; ~26087~ &lt;Editor: Michael Bentley>
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