It had no executive branch to enforce the laws of the land, congress has no power to tax individual states, and each state printed its own currency.
Well it's in your question it was the North of America, the people who didn't like slaves and thought the south was wrong. Everything term you used is considered for the North of America during the American Civil War.
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leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory
Northern places like Canada were colonized by France. The mid part was at first colonized by the Dutch but then the colonies were taken by the British. The central American part, including South America and the Carribean was mostly controlled by the Spanish. Portugal had control of Brazil while Russians started slowly moving towards Alaska but couldn't establish colonies until the 18th century.
