How is north america and south america's agriculture different? how is it similiar?

What if the United States encompassed all of North America or all of the Americas?

• I was studying American history, specifically the first 50 years of the US. I came upon a section in a book that said that some of the Founding Fathers wanted the United States to encompass all of North America and maybe even all of South America to create a strong republic and kick out Europeans and compete with them. My question is, what if the United States did encompass all of North America? And assuming that the country got to this size while it was expanding westwards and stayed together and remained unified, how would the country be different culturally, economically, politically,  and militarily? How would the United States be different on a global scale? The second part of y question is, what if the United States encompassed all of the Americas? Both North and South. Once again assuming that the country got to this size while it was expanding westwards and stayed together and remained unified, how would the country be different culturally, economically, politically,  and militarily? How would the United States be different on a global scale? Thank you.

• Answer:

  I think part of your answer is the "Two heads are better than one" scenario. Obviously, the free mixing of more people, more minds, has a synergistic effect of unexpected benefits. U.S. culture as it stands today is, of course, very much a mix of many cultures more or less coexisting. We have many languages, many traditions, a mix of many histories, etc. which, as it happens includes those from Canada and those in the other american nations to the south. I don't think our culture would be drastically different here in what we presently know as the U.S - as I said, we're already and diverse mix - but, if Canada and the nations to the south were, in fact, members of the United States, those cultures would be quite a bit different in that they'd greatly benefit from the free mingling of state economies we have here in the U.S. A key to the economic and cultural might of the United States has been the freedom our citizens have to travel state to state, but more profoundly the freedom of interstate commerce. As a U.S. citizen, I know that wherever I happen to go in our country, the basics I need to live comfortably are available and the same government I might turn to in Washington state is the one I'd turn to in Florida. There is a rather even level of prosperity wherever I happen to be. That may or may not be true in Canada and is most definitely not true of nations to the south. Of course, if we saw Argentinians, or Brazilians, Peruvians, Mexicans, Guatamalans, Panamanians, etc. simply as Americans - and they saw us in the same way, no doubt our combined cultures would be richer for it. Of course, some would say we're practically there already. There are many occasions when I'm inclined to agree. Here in Seattle, if I were inclined to meet someone from every nation on Earth, I could. And they are welcome to meet me.