Because the War of 1812 was an attempt by the British to capture and control much of the American nation.
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The defining characteristics in the gilded age included individualism, urbanization, new values, art, and forms of entertainment. The Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post?Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century.
The answer is racism. It is racism because they treated the Europeans from the north more better than Europeans from the south for no reason when they were essentially the same