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President James Buchanan
________ 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.
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 ..
secession
Acts of force or violence to support ________ were insurrectionary.
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.
Montgomery
In February 1861, representatives of the seven seceded states met at ________, Alabama, and announced the formation of a new nation: the Confederate States of America.
National Bank Acts
The ________ of 1863- 1864 created a new national banking system.
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