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C: British empire. you are welcome
The government is the political/bureaucratic system that runs the state. A state is composed of territory, population, sovereignty.
The United States finally collapsed into a Civil War because southern states began to secede from the Union upon Lincoln's election to the office of President. Lincoln did not tolerate these secessions, which he deemed illegal.
The census is what happens when the official count of the population occurs every ten years.
True, it was religiously offensive to the troops of the nation.