Maptour Page 5
Maptour: The Boundaries of Canada, 1670-2001
The 49th Parallel


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Slideshow: Territorial Timeline, 1670-2001

Try This:

  • Click on the "Related Materials" drop-down menu and select Slideshow - Territorial Timeline, 1670-2001.
  • On the navigation bar at the top of the slideshow window, click on "1840-1849."

Notice ...

  • A text narrates the circumstances of boundary changes.
  • The international boundary was open to dispute on several fronts.

Try This:

  • Under "Territorial Timeline, 1840-1849", read the text for "1842 Maine boundary dispute resolved."
  • On the 1849 map, click on the red box for "Dispute A."

Notice ...

  • Britain and the United States each laid claim deep into territory the other believed was rightfully theirs.

Consider!

  • American imperial ambitions are bound up in the term "Manifest Destiny"- the idea that the United States was destined, inevitably, to be sovereign over all of North America.
  • Britain had imperial ambitions too.