They believed the taxation was unfair and protested against it
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a large zone of divergence in the middle of the Atlantic ocean. It surfaces on land on Iceland. It is the region where the Eurasian and African plates are moving away from the North and South American plates. This trend in the pattern of volcanoes and tensional features indicate that the plates are moving away from each other in the direction NW-SE.
Answer:
Because of the White Man Burden.
Explanation:
The white mans burden was the beliesf that it was white mans duty to colonize others
They wanted to build the erie canal so that there would be an easier way of transportation of goods from the Ohio valley and other places to the West of them