Britain enforced the economic system of mercantilism with its colonies. In addition, British-controlled colonies provided a ready- made, steady market for British goods. Government: • Internal trade was encouraged.The government helped build canals, roads and railways.Success in international trade created Britain's high wage, cheap energy economy, and it was the spring board for the Industrial Revolution. High wages and cheap energy created a demand for technology that substituted capital and energy for labour. These incentives operated in many industries.
The Treaty of Versailles once referred to as “A Peace Built on Quicksand” due to it's lacking abilities in keeping peace between nations that have already been through a world war.
Southerners approved the Dred Scott decision believing Congress had no right to prohibit slavery in the territories. Later, in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by granting citizenship to all those born in the United States, regardless of color.
