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The person that counts it is your State's House of Representatives or Senators. It also depends on population, the more populated your state is, then the more representatives your have, that is why it is important to do the United States Census.
It would have been starved out because no food or supplies could have reached the fort, and the Civil War would not have started, because open hostilities had not began.
Profit drives people to risk their savings
C. increase
Government subsidies tend to increase supply.