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What is Manifest Destiny |
The american belief that they ate destined by god to rule north america from coast to coast |
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Why did the united states choose this time to attack us. |
Because Britain was busy fighting napolean for the second time and that was more important. |
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On paper who should have won the war of 1812 |
The Americans. They had more soldiers, materials and the British weren't going to be sending us any troops. |
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Who was Isaac Brock |
The British military in upper canada. |
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Tecumseh |
Shawnee chief in the Ohio valley. He wanted to get back the "Indian territory" him and brock teamed up and worked together and became good friends |
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Laura secord |
She was a mother who heard of the plans of an ambush on us so she walked 39 km and warned the canadian troops about the ambush |
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Why do we think we won and why do the states think they won |
They feel they won because it showed they could take on Britain and not get destroyed and because they disnt lose any territory to Britain. We think we won because we stopped the Americans from taking us over. Americans also just said it was a do over. The people who actually lost were the indeginous because they didnt get their land back. |
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What was the different between the treaty of ghent and rush-bagot |
Treaty of ghent is that the borders are back and the war is over. Rush bagot is that war ships were banned from the great lakes. |
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What were colonial oligarchs and what were their names |
They were a small group of rich guys that ran the country but only did stuff that was good for them and bot for others. Upper Canada was called the "Family Compacy" and the lower canada was referred to as the "Chateau Clique" |
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Why did the early treaties became get reconsidered |
Because the indeginous people no longer our numbered the British so the threat of them driving the British out no longer was a real threat |
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What did the slogan "fifty-four-forty or fight" mean |
He to bring the land of oregan up to the fifty fourth parallel and they would fight if not |
