U.S. and Canada connect together?
By: Ashley Shelton
Background information:
Over the years the United States of America and Canada have grown closer together. When America was established it was run by the French and the British. They were run by different leaders that hated echother so they didn't trade or share a lot of things. To this day we share the same British culture. " Each is the other's chief economic partner" written by Wikipedia, tells us that we get a lot of our goods from one another.
Map of North America
The united states and Canada share a continent. This continent is called North America.
Border line between U.S and Canada
The border line between these two nieghboring countries are split by states and provinces. It also splits at the Great lakes (Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario).
Flags of the the Neighbors
These are the flags of United states and Canada. Our flags don't look alike or have anything that can relate one to the other.
Economic:
Economic means jobs, money, and trade. Starting off with the differences... We don't have the same currency. There are also warmer jobs in the U.S. and colder jobs in Canada. Canada exports more goods to the state of Michigan than across the Atlantic ocean to Europe. America and Canada share a $1.4 trillion bilateral trade. Canada also accounts for 28% of the total United States oil imports.
Social:
Social means groups of people, culture, and migration.
Canadas population: 34,082,000
United States population: 311,416,383
Canada has 1.6% more total land area then the U.S. But, the U.S. has 4 times more arable land because of being closer to the equator the land has better soil. The United Stateshas 9.2 times more people. The life excpectancy is pretty close in both countries.
Canada: 81.38 years life ecpectancy
America: 78.37 years life expectancy
Political:
Both the United States and Canada have the same government which is Federal Presidential Constitutional republic. Canada also has another government. The President of the U.S. is Barack Obama. The President for Canada is Stephen Harper. Neither countries have ever had a female leader. English is the main language for both countries but Canada also has French due to the 1800's.
Oil
The United States gets most of their oil from Canada because Canada's land is not very arable,.
Population Growth
This is a map of the growth in 2006. We can tell that the U.S. is much more populated because of the height difference
Syurp
Syrup is made mostly from Canada then is shipped to Michigan and hat is exported around the country.