How Did The United States Become Canada

Philip H.
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Countries during the era of the 1860s realized that being an independent country would not be beneficial to them, the major one within this timeline, the colonies in Canada. The colonies in what would become Canada would be pressured by issues from places within itself and foreign places for multiple reasons. First of all, the parties for politics were equal in size and power making them be able to block every move of the opposing parties, making movement within the political world impossible. Secondly, America started to leap in terms of magnitude and strength, and began to have aspirations of making manifest destiny reality. Finally, the economic problems were piling up on Canada due to America cancelling a treaty and them being unable to trade because of having no railroads. In the end, the path to Confederation was led by pressure from a numerous amount of sources, leading the way to the creation of Canada.
However, instead it led to political deadlock, in which government decisions could not be made because each side blocked the other from advancing any agenda” (Connor 172). This would cause problems as 4 parties were made and parties from each side of Canada had to cooperate to make a decision. In addition to this, Canada West had a myriad of issues as their 2 leaders, George Brown and John A. Macdonald, weren’t the best of friends and considered enemies to each other. Since, these 2 leaders couldn’t cooperate with one another someone or something had to push them towards the end of the deadlock, which would be a multitude of things (Baird