The Oregon could have made its journey much more quickly using a canal.
The main way in which the Alien and Sedition Acts divided American Political parties was that "<span>b. Federalist supported the acts. Democratic Republicans opposed them" but there were exceptions. </span>
The loyalists taxed the patriots unfairly. They wanted them to pay taxes but they didn't want to give them any say in the government.
It was the espectacular escape!!!
For months, with spoons as tools, each one drilled its way into the ventilation pipes of the old building, sometimes aided by the vacuum motor turned into a drill.
They built a raft from the remains of a lifeguard that had to withstand the onslaughts of the sea and the probable tarascades of hungry sharks. For the end they left the elaboration of oars that would help them to reach the other shore, probably near the Golden Gate. The instrument to inflate the boat was missing: an old accordion that we don't know where it came from!!!