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Railway Issues
Immigration
Higher rates of train passengers
Contributed to the growth of towns and cities
Bigger sizes for transporting goods
Better economy overall
Allowed greater trades
Easier access to places
Overtime, the railway grew and started to spread to different places
Ex. hotels, airlines, delivery and telecommunications companies.
Helped with the war
It allowed Canada to provide and transport things needed for the war
Ex. extra help, men, equipment, medical supplies
Threat of American Invasion
Less chances of invasion
North America colonies believed that joining forces with Britain was one of their only options
Citizens hoped that the confederation would prevent the U.S from invading North America
Britain was one of the strongest or even the strongest country back then, Canada joined forces for protection
U.S invasion failed
They thought that it would be easy to invade Canada
America had six times the amount of men, the British didn't really bother guarding the border, they jumped to the conclusion that Canadians were anti-British
British North America
They believed that territories would easily fall into the hands of the Americans
Many in British North America wanted to expand their territories to the West and North to prevent the U.S from conquering them
Political Deadlock
What is it
For a bill to pass in the Legislative Assembly, vote needed to be held in both Canada East and Canada West
The French and the Canadians could never agree on anything so this caused a political deadlock
Lead to confederation
Canada West and Canada East had equal representatives in the Legislative Assembly
Both groups took turns in discussion but they could never come to a conclusion, which lead to the political deadlock