They mobilized their populations for war by the Confederacy requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention and releasing reluctant draftees while the Union levying special taxes on southern supporters, suspending habeas corpus and imprisoning southern sympathizers without trials.
Answer: Yes. We were better over time but we became a poor country until people from all over the world started coming to seek a free country with a right of free religion. Then by the 1800's the US was becoming one of the richer country's across the world.
