A command economy could probably solve it faster.
This is because the government runs the economy in a command system and not the market. The government could in such a case focus all its resources on solving the crisis unlike the free market economy where people dealing with economy might be disinterested since it wouldn't affect their businesses or anything similar.
Before the Civil War, most people in the North worked in factories.
It was made legal in 1866 and this law made it unlawful to refuse to trade or deal
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The vikings landed on the northern part of Newfoundland.