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