Transportation In America Essay

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Transportation: Andrew
Colonies were growing, and so were the costs of building transportation, railroads and roads were being built. Every single colony has its own transportation (railway systems), but they all had a shortage of money, so building more transportation and expanding it cost a lot! If colonies came together and joined each other to lighten the cost there would be more tax and more money they would be in debt. Adding to the list of the problem, in the cold weather the St. Lawrence River would freeze causing it to be more difficult to build more transportation, plus the Gaspe mountain made it very hard to get things to the Atlantic colonies.

Repeal of Corn Laws: Isaiah
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What occurred was that the great power of US wanted to continue to expand their land and wanted to buy or conquer the land. This land, however, was ruled by the colonies. And this lead to the creation of Canada because the forces of the Americans can overthrow the power of the BNA. This was a problem as the British didn’t care about BNA nor of their livelihood. Thus, this resulted into the creation of Canada because the constant threat by the Americans and BNA is required to take responsibility for that. Thus by coming together they are able to create a force that is great enough to defend the land and to save BNA from being ruled by the United States. The philosophical reasoning behind the USA of Manifest Dynasty was that they are destined to rule all of North America and that they would take over land from coast to coast and this ideas was thought of during their civil war. In the end, John A. Macdonald, George Brown and George Etienne Cartier joined to create a larger union of British North America. This union would increase protection from an American invasion, and would also make a trade in the colonies easier that became even more important in 1866 when the United States ended free trade with Canada. Thus by creating the confederation Canada or BNA could defend from the States and economically grow (which BNA lacked) and united to create an equal government.

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