The First Continental Congress organized a boycott of British goods. The Second Continental Congress declared independence from Britain.
Provided railroad companies land free of charge.
In order to help expand railroads throughout the country after the civil war, congress made railroads expand significantly; bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy.
Germany had the urge to split its region between the Protestants in the north and the Catholics in the south because of the rising conflicts in these religious factions at the time of the "Age of Reformation." The continuous tensions between these two factions could rattle the political structure of Germany.
