This interest was mainly grounded in placing missionaries in Oregon to convert Native Americans to Christianity, and in stopping Catholic Canadian missionaries from operating in the same area, which was seen as a threat to eventual American annexation of the territory. ... Texas" annexation did not satisfy American designs on Mexican territory, a lust that would eventually lead to war. ... President Polk secretly made preparations for war, positioning forces to retaliate against Mexico in case of a war. ... Polk used this as justification for war and invaded Mexico, eventually occupying Mex...

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These men played on a "barnstorming" tour throughout America and Canada. ... The team also experienced hardship because a few of the players had to quit playing for the team because they were drafted to the army for World War II. ... "The Kues served as icons of racial pride to various Chinese communities across the United States and Canada" (Yep 59). ... This is because these men from San Francisco were able to leave and travel America and Canada, which was impossible for any person of color during that era and they were able to provide hope for Chinese Americans....

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However, in 1876 after several brutal wars, the Sioux, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, and Comanches complied to move to certain areas where whites were prohibited (Greenberg 33). ... Polk in the war with Mexico, which started in 1846. ... After the war, filibustering, another tactic of U.S. territorial expansion, was also driven against Spanish Florida, Mexican Texas, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean Islands. ... The West was not only a destiny of economic opportunity, but also an occasion for the conversion of residents such as French settlers of Canada and the Mississippi River Valley, as we...

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During the American Revolution, native America's played a vital role in the war. Most tribes joined the British during the war, making this one of the bigger deals when issues ranging from sovereignty to territorial rule came up, after the British lost the war. After the war, the Indians gave the new country a new identity, distinct from the British culture. ... The age of 'Manifest Destiny' came to be associated with reservation camps we see today in huge parts of the US and Canada. ... Whole groups of people have been detained in camps, such as the Japanese during world war t...

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In The Unredeemed Captive, John Demos illustrates the complexities of the relationships among the puritan settlers of New England, the Roman-Catholic French of New France (currently parts of Canada), and the Native Americans both nations forcefully relocated. ... As Cotton Mather intimated to Reverend Williams in correspondence, "You are carried into the land of the Canadians for your good."1 Children, on the other hand were more often left in the care of the Natives. ... Demos raises the Native Americans from the heathen status by giving them human qualities, not just focusing on the viole...

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This want for new territory, would cause boundary issues and fears to arise soon after the Revolutionary War with the fledgling government of the United States. ... One of the reasons that the War of 1812 with Britain happened was fear of other countries would try to come and prevent America from expanding. ... The United States' borders would later be in dispute again in the Spanish American War with Mexico, shortly after Mexico gains their independence. ... This boundary dispute is what caused the Spanish-American War of 1846. ... The Oregon Treaty was signed on June 15th, 1846, and the...

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The fur trade was to be the beginning of something that would hit on more fronts than just the introduction of a nation wide business, but to be used as a tool in the convincing of the Native Americans to come and side with the U.S. as the British occupation in Northern Michigan was beginning to subside, and the beginning of the Canadian intervention in the influence of the Native Americans was beginning to start. ... The governor was asked to take this step from Robert Stuart, the American Fur Company manager at Mackinac, who said that this was the only way that the Company could succeed in t...

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Instead of finding this route, Hudson discovered parts of the Americas and present-day Canada. ... They were profitable fur traders with the Native American tribes, and militarily, they engaged in several wars with the Iroquois. The French also established settlements in the Mississippi Valley, present-day Canada, and along the Gulf coast. ...

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For example, "Bird migrations made their biggest contribution to Indian food supplies in April, May, September, and October when Canada geese, brants, mourning doves, and miscellaneous ducks passed though" (Cronon 40). ... These changes contributed to the conflicts leading up to the King Phillip's War in 1675-76, but their longer-term effect was to force Indians who depended on trade goods to turn to the only major commodity they had left: their land....

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