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After losing the ACW the US government wants to federalize everything as much as possible including the economy making secession economic suicide. The way it does so is to intervene more in the economy but it is still capitalist in the sense it nationalizes little of the economy but uses tax breaks and subsidies to encourage interstate commerce. Ideas I have: 1) spread out military bases as much as possible to the various states. 2) Encourage railroads to build into virtually every small town in the US. 3) Encourage big city newspapers to buy up smaller ones across state lines 4) Encourage factory owners to build factories in more than one state
Any other ideas?