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Why bother?

Why bother?. Factors for Confederation. Shape of the Class. Admin Current events Why bother? Group research Factors for Confederation Wrap-up. “Elbow room”. What might this mean for Canada?. Group work. Move into your colony groups

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Why bother?

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  1. Why bother? Factors for Confederation

  2. Shape of the Class • Admin • Current events • Why bother? • Group research • Factors for Confederation • Wrap-up

  3. “Elbow room” • What might this mean for Canada?

  4. Group work • Move into your colony groups • You will receive a slip of paper with a factor that influenced the colonies in favour of Confederation • Using your text, explain what your factor is, how it influenced life for people in the colonies and why it would make them want to join together

  5. Security • Fenian raids • Irish American “freedom fighters” • Furious with the British • Attacked the nearest British colony • U.S.Civil War • Britain traded with the southern states • Didn’t make the north very happy

  6. Security • Manifest Destiny • The view held that America had the right to control all of North America • Gold Rush in BC • Americans came in huge numbers

  7. Age of Rail • Train were the way of the future in the Victorian era • But they were expensive to build and maintain

  8. Intercontinental railway • Would link coast to coast, providing a buffer against American settlement • Would encourage westward expansion • Link the Maritimes to central Canada’s manufacturing

  9. Trade (with Britain) • Corn Laws • Preferential treatment for Britain and colonies • No tariffs on cereal grains • Repealed in 1846 • U.S. is able to cut in and trade for much cheaper • The colonies need to find additional trade partners

  10. Trade (with the U.S.) • Reciprocity Agreement • 10 year free trade deal signed in 1854 • The U.S. declines to re-sign or extend in 1865 • The colonies are then forced to look for new trade partners again • Who else could they trade with?

  11. Changing British Attitudes • Britain is less and less interested in in defending, supporting and propping up the colonies • Colonies must fend for themselves

  12. Political deadlock • A new federal government using rep by pop would break the deadlock in Canada East and West • Is this a factor “for” or “against” confederation? • For who?

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