Is this about the British industrialization?
if so then I’d say that the two resources that were very important during that period were textiles. Basically cotton and wool. If we’re talking about transportation resources then river canals and railway systems. If this isn’t even about the British Industrial period then i’m sorry. Be more specific.
The Louisiana purchase doubled the size of the United States. It started manifest destiny. It also gave the United States natural resources they needed to grow.
South Africa was one of the trade routes to India, so they wanted the land. They soon found gold and diamonds on the land, which led to the Boer war.
That the banks should not be able to take common peoples money and it should be refunded if lost by the bank. Or the trail of tears they believed many things.