While some French Canadians emigrated to the United States for political reasons, namely young men trying to evade military conscription during the First World War or rebels who had chosen to side with the American patriots during the American Revolution or who had participated in the Lower-Canadian rebellions of 1837-
The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law to ban slavery,
The main reason why the Continental Congress was unable to fix the economic crisis after the American Revolution was because they had no power to tax the states--meaning that they could not repay the nation's war debts.
