Producers, Consumers, and Money
If producers can not make items and consumers can not buy gems both without having money then items become scarce.
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Uncertainty surrounded Lincoln's inauguration. ... Despite Lincoln's reassurances, southerners were not convinced. Many believed that slavery could not be protected in the current Union regardless of who was in charge. States that had already seceded continued to encourage border states to join their new nation.
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