How did the Southern states experience an increase in central power?
More tax, more resort to loans, widespread printing of money, conscription, arresting dissidents, enforcing marital law
How did Northern states increase their central power?
They went further- suspending civil rights, arresting dissenters and punishments were harsher, less chance to evade conscription, new banking system, ‘greenback’ paper currency
South was one of the most what in the early years?
Least taxed and controlled- conscription heavily resisted
