When the civil war began, both the north and the south mistakenly anticipated a short war because

i do not know if this question has options, but a main impact of the federal reserve act of 1913, which created the federal reserve bank, was the international use of the u.s. dollar, which soon became the world's leading currency - particularly during world war i, since many nations around the world asked the united states for money.

no one really purchased it themselves, it was all america, they had debates etc.