The king and Parliament viewed the colonies as production factories for the crown. They were not seen as British citizens.
The tensions between the French speaking,Catholic descendants of French colonists and the English speaking,Protestant British population and government.
Ideas that the USA was planning any invasion of Canada in 1865 or just after are nonsense - Britain had sold far more war materiel to the Union than the Confederacy during the Civil War,the Union army was needed to enforce Reconstruction on US citizens in the South,and any war with Britain would have seen the huge British navy establish a blockade of the US coast and cripple the US economy - as it had done in the War of !812.President Johnson was aware of all of this,so had no intention - or desire to - attack Canada.
I believe the correct answer from the choices listed above is the third option. People might exercise their First Amendment right to petition the government in order to ask the government to help fix a problem. <span>The </span>right to petition government<span> for redress of grievances is the right to make a complaint to, or seek the assistance of, one's government.</span>
