Answer:
(i) Their export market collapsed.
(ii) Local market also shrank as it was flooded
with Manchester imports.
(iii) Produced by machines at
lower costs, the imported cotton goods were so cheap that weavers could not
easily compete with them.
(iv) By 1860, weavers could not
get sufficient supply of raw cotton of good quality.
(v) When American Civil War
broke out and cotton supply from the US was cut off, Britain turned towards
India.
(vi) As raw cotton exports from India
increased, the price of raw cotton shot up.
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