Because they had a different currency than the rest of the world and wanted to compete in what historians call the "The Great Coin Race" which started in 19 A.D. and ended in 1339. The soon regretted this.
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B) They did not take sides
Robert Alain was the first to do that. Back in 1973 he was the one who figured everything out..Basically what we have as of now
They had to defeat the Southern armies on the South's home soil.
They would have to occupy each seceding state.