The concept that many political leaders thought would help end the slavery issue was the concept of "popular sovereignty, meaning that the inhabitants of each new state would choose to be "slave" or "free".
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Cotton diplomacy refers to the diplomatic methods employed by the Confederacy during the American Civil War to coerce the United Kingdom and France to support the Confederate war effort by implementing a cotton trade embargo against the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. Hope this helped!
