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Britain. Thus began the War of 1812 (a bit of a historical curiosity, since the United States declared the war and then waited for Britain to come and fight rather than immediately invading or attacking).
The South had always been less enthusiastic about the railroad industry than the North; its citizens preferred an agrarian living and left the mechanical jobs to men from the Northern states. The railroads existed, they believed, solely to get cotton to the ports.