The whole thing was motivated by dumb strategic decisions, though. They thought their near-monopoly on the production of cotton as a raw material made the rest of the world dependent on them to the point that the Brits and French would actually side with them over the North.
This was dunderhead bullshit and that, of course, never happened. The rest of the world just decided to cope with somewhat higher cotton prices.
Cotton was definitely an important commodity in the world economy, but not important enough to piss off the North.
Also does Binger just piss you off so much with his appearance and voice you can't even stand to listen to anything he says and would just almost automatically disagree with it no matter what it was? God I hate this whiny little bitch boy so much.