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Confederation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The Great Coalition united political people, breaking to policital deadlock. This worked toward creating a federated union which then led to Canadas confederation.
    - - The Stalemate in the province of Canada highlighted the need for a more stable and unified government structure which made leaders want to consider Confederation as a solution.
    - - John A. Macdonald and George-Etienne Cartier were from Canada west and worked together to try and remain in control of the province of Canada. They didn't believe in the Rep By Pop idea that Brown had.
    - - The Quebec conference was the conference about the government system in Canada. It served the foundation for confederation. The 72 resolutions outlined the structure of this federal system for a united Canada.
    - - Brown, MacDonald and Cartier were leaders of the conference. In this conference they were trying to convince Maritime provinces into the idea of confederation. They basically charmed their way into convincing them into confederation, they ended up agreeing.
- - - - Trains could work all year round and were much faster than a man on horse back. 12 miles a day compared to 600 km. If there were military threats from the USA, troops could move from the maritimes to other places in the country quickly and efficiently. Unifying the British colonies was needed.
    - - The British colonies and the USA had a trade treaty called the Treaty of Reciprocity, although the USA decided they didn't want this anymore. They were trying to push the British colonies to join the States for trade but instead it strengthened their opinions on Confederating as a country of their own.
    - - Leaders in Canada realized that it was necessary to make a railway of some sort to link colonies together for the continental trade system. They could trade from east to west. The high costs of this caused the colonies to consider working together and looked at a future together.
    - - The removal of the Corn Laws led to a major economic decline as exports to Britain dropped drastically. This caused Canadians to consider a continental trade system. This contributed to discussions about confederation since the colonies saw benefits to joining together to create stronger trade networks.
- - - - Britain believed that if BNA was independent then the relationship between Britain and USA would improve. Allowing their colonies to become independent, Britain wouldn't have to worry about managing the relationships of the colonies and could just focus on their own relationship with America.
    - - Britain wanted its colonies, especially the ones in North America, to be more financially responsible for their own defence. It lessened financial burden on British taxpayers by making the colonies more self sufficient through confederating as a country.
    - - Britain offered low interest loans for the railway development as a way for the colonies to support confederation. This was meant to encourage the colonies to become more united making confederation more appealing.
- - - - This is when British Confederate agents were captured by Americans, which caused Canada to become a country to be able to defend itself better.
    - - Confederate soldiers attacked the town of St. Alban, Vermont and used Montreal as their base. USA threatened BNA if anything happened again they would retaliate. BNA realized they can't really defend themselves as separate entities/colonies.
    - - The Fenians were a group that banded together and launched many attacks against BNA which promoted the desire for a union among the BNA Colonies.
    - - Since the States were expanding across the continent it was going through everybody's mind that they would be looking at Canada's territory to conquer next. We felt defenseless and once again believed that confederation was the right thing to do.
    - - The American civil war was a big reason for the confederation of Canada because it heightened the safety concerns between Canada and the States, ultimately rushing the confederation of Canada.