HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture 2: AM History.2
22 Oct 2017
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Comprehensive exam: 5/11/17: britain and venezuela have disputed area of border between venezuela and. Venezuela: requests u. s. intervention (monroe doctrine) because the british take this disputed territory. U. s: threatens war, britain submits to arbitration. Strive to achieve equality with europe: alaska (1867) Seward"s folly/icebox (neither true: not a folly good to own land and it"s rich in resources, eliminates russia from western hemisphere, rst step to acquiring canada (manifest destiny; seward wants canada!, new frontier, natural resources. Alabama claims (1867: union shipping damaged during civil war. Civil suit vs. england (who broke their own law that said they couldn"t sell weapons to a country that is at war with one of their allies) Seward demands million and sumner wants canada (sumner"s a nut and a jerk who likes to stir things up: treaty of washington. U. s. receives . 5 million: biggest country in world treated us as equals!
