HIST 1F96 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Patrilineality, Monroe Doctrine, Lower Canada
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American revolution: british lost and ceded land. War of 1812: helped push westward expansion; wanted to take over part of canada; british promised to return native land (did not receive land) Us-mexico war: americans moved into northern mexico (texas); Mexico declared no more us immigration (americans were slaveholders, mexico had abolished); hard to enforce; mexico lost (1846-1848) and they signed the treaty of guadeloupe and gave texas, Civil war (1846): britain and us divided oregon county at the 49th parallel; President lincoln made west land cheap and gave large tracts of land so a railroad could be built. Mexico war: post-civil war quest for national unity. Canada: britain oversees process, regional divisions: french canada became more nationalistic after metis. **1870"s is seen as the period of change (railroads, producing items for exportation, needing land for expansion) Native people did not simply fall victim to these policies.
