Britain repealed the Corn Laws and Navigations Acts, which had been economically beneficial to the colonies at the same rate it applied to all other trading countries, a situation to which the colonies had never been accustomed.
英国撕毁了给好几代殖民地人带来经济利益的谷物法和航行法案,并开始对殖民地课以与其他所有贸易国家同样高的税率,这是殖民地从未遇到过的情况。
From 1861to 1864, Americans were involved in a major civil war. Britain had traditional economic ties with the southern part of the United States that provided cotton to British markets. In the meantime, since the war was essentially between the North and the South, the North resented Britains connection with the South. In addition, during the last year of the American Civil War, the American Government of the dominant and ultimately victorious North, refused to renew a ten-year free trade agreement with United Canada, the large British colony in the central part of British North America. These arbitrary events brought concern and even fear to these colonies. With the loss of traditional trading arrangements and the end of the civil war, the North being victorious, the colonists feared that the Americans might turn on the British colonies in retaliation for Britains moral support for the South.
1861到1864年,美国陷入全面内战。过去是美国南方为英国市场提供棉花,英国与之有着紧密的传统经济联系。在此期间,由于这实际上是一场南北方之间的战争,北方当然不满英国与南方之间的这种传统关系。此外,在美国内战的最后一年,占据优势并最终获胜的北方的美国政府,拒绝延续与联合加拿大英属北美中部最大的英国殖民地签订的十年自由贸易协议。这些独断专横的事件带给这些殖民地的是担忧甚至是恐惧。传统贸易协议的废除和以北方作为胜利者的内战的结束,使殖民者们害怕美国人可能会转而对付英属殖民地,以报复英国对南方的道义支持。
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