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Rh In the first place, the Monroe Doctrine unmistakably made the two states rivals rather than joint actors in the struggle for control of affairs in the Western Hemisphere. In the next place, because of this rivalry, conflicts of interest incident to the development of Canada, to the promotion of trade, and to relations with the British West Indies, constantly occurred. With the outbreak of the Civil War, the states of the Union found several reasons for additional hostility toward Great Britain. Some members of the British upper classes, together with the cotton manufacturers, expressed open sympathy for the South, This friendship was due to a number of causes. To begin with, British industry was involved. Great Britain required a constant and regular supply of cotton. Much of this was purchased from the South and any war would be sure to interrupt cotton shipments. Besides this, the South preferred free trade. Furthermore, the South had always been more closely related to the British in temperament, in religion, in education, and in ideals than had the North. Immediately upon the outbreak of the war a few Englishmen began to compare the causes of the Civil War as they were enunciated by the South with the causes of the Revolution as they had been advanced by the colonists. The colonists had asserted that government was just only when sanctioned by those governed. Since the South did not sanction the federal government then