The United States had many reasons for going to war in 1812: Britain’s interference with its trade and impressment of its seamen; Americans’ desire to expand settlement into Indian, British, and Spanish territories; aspirations to conquer Canada and end British influence in North America; and upholding the nation’s sovereignty and vindicating its honor.
However, nations go to war infrequently, and a more interesting question is why the United States declared war. While the young members of Congress—the War Hawks—were in favor of war, the nation’s two presidents during this era, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, were not. Both viewed war and its consequences—a standing army, increase in government size, and debt—as antithetical to republicanism. They were convinced instead that self-imposed restrictions on American trade would force Britain and France, who were fighting in the Napoleonic Wars, to respect American neutrality.
The New England states particularly feared great losses to their trade, and their representatives in Congress voted against war. Others argued that America was totally unprepared for war against the mighty British Empire. Perhaps, however, War Hawk John C. Calhoun glimpsed the real cause in his observation that the conflict was “a second struggle for our liberty,” to finish the struggle for our independence.
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To understand why French Canadians have struggled to settle in the west, historians have focused primarily on cultural differences. New research reveals that English and French speakers have somewhat different personal characteristics. Large-scale migration into New England balanced the demographic and human capital profile of French Canadians. Although if by the 1880s the U.S. had introduced immigration controls, many French Canadians would not possibly have been redirected westward, writers claim. There was little chance of later chain migration of French Canadians to the West, they add, without much of the base built by the beginning of the twentieth century. The only mainly French-speaking province in 1867 was Quebec, although it was one out of four provinces. Just about 5% of western Canada's white population spoke French as their mother tongue in 1901. Political structures in the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were most unlikely to be built with Francophones in mind without a significant minority of Francophone voters in the early 1900s. Chain migration is sometimes provided as a dominant explanation, but every chain has a beginning, for the locational concentrations of migrants of one ethnicity or regional history.
Answer: Voting in Elections
Explanation: Because you are supposed to be voting practicing your right and then plus voting is your responsibility since it is very important.
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Postwar recovery that imposed harsh standards on the Southern states and supported newly freed slaves (freedmen) in their pursuit of political, economic, and social opportunities.
