They gained control over many byzantine trade routes. The first is your answer
It would be "developing a strong commercial and industrial economy" that was a part of Alexander Hamilton’s plan for restructuring the nation’s debt, since Hamilton differed with people like Jefferson, who felt the US should be mostly agrarian.
They couldn't find the funding because there was a trade embargo and the colonies could not trade with anyone. They couldn't find money either inside because people didn't have any or were loyalists.
It would be "England" and "Germany" that have large populations of Protestants, due mostly to the fact that the Protestant Reformation actually began in what is now Germany, and quickly spread north.
