The answer is b. demand for cotton grew after W.W.1
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After the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the balance of power in North America changed a lot. Before the treaty, there was only one hegemonic power in North America: Britain, with only a few remaining areas dominated by Spain and France.
After the Treaty was signed, Britain lost its most populated and developed colonies, and a new political actor, the United States, emerged.
All verses in Lamentations chapter three
First, the Spanish viewed
Philippines as kind of a backwater station, and so sent to that colony old and
obsolete wooden ships and gunboats. To Cuba, the Spanish station its best ships
there including the steel-clad protected cruiser San Cristobal. The U.S sent
the Asiatic Squadron, commanded by George Dewey, to subdue Spanish ships. Dewey’s
fleet simply outgunned and tore his way out of the wooden Spanish vessels. Campaign
in Cuba needed U.S Navy operations and a land campaign by U.S Army and U.S
Marines, and were successful in destroying the Spanish fleet there.