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President James Buchanan

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 ..

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.

secession

Acts of force or violence to support ________ were insurrectionary.

National Bank Acts

The ________ of 1863- 1864 created a new national banking system.

As the war began, only one thing was clear

all the important material advantages lay with the North

The government tried to do so in three ways

by levying taxes, issuing paper currency, and borrowing