CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Historical Revisionism, War Hawk, Anti-Americanism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANA 1F91
• Professor: Maureen Connolly

Document Summary

Canada"s blooding: the war of (cid:883)8(cid:883)(cid:884) as myth and history- september 20, 2016. Why the war of 1812 made everyone happy. Us was able to show how strong and powerful they were (beating the. Canadians defending their land and burning down the whitehouse. Both the canadians and the us thought that they won. British were distracted with the french war due to this war. War was declared between the us and the british but canada becomes the target because they were linked to the british and were closer geographically. Causes: british interference with american sovereignty, the british were doing it with savages (native people, impressment controversy. Hundreds of people being kidnapped from their ships to fight in the navy: war hawks and america"s manifest destiny. Manifest destiny meant that it was their destiny to conquer the entire us. The us takes over the rest of the us and upper canada because the.