________ told Congress in December 1860 that no state had the right to secede from the Union but suggested that the federal government had no authority to stop a state if it did.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
________, speaking for much of the North, said at the time:"I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute one state ..
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Homestead Act
The ________ of 1862 permitted any citizen or prospective citizen to claim 160 acres of public land and to purchase it for a small fee after living on it for five years.
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secession
Acts of force or violence to support ________ were insurrectionary.
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National Bank Acts
The ________ of 1863- 1864 created a new national banking system.
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As the war began, only one thing was clear
all the important material advantages lay with the North
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The government tried to do so in three ways
by levying taxes, issuing paper currency, and borrowing
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