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The Importance Of American Takeover
America has just fought a civil war over slavery and the Northern states have won. Since Britain depends on the southern states for cotton, the Northern states think that Britain is with the South, We believe because of this the Northern States are angry at Britain.

In 1864, Southern soldiers raided the North and hid in Canada. This made the Northern states angry at Canada and we fear they will attack us because of this or maybe as a way of taking revenge on Britain.

What's even worse is that the Northern states have a far bigger army than us and the British have already decided they are not going to help us because they do not want to fight over ”Trees and Rocks”.

We also fear that many Americans believe in Manifest Destiny, which means they believe it is natural that the United States may one day control all of North America.
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This will make it harder for the North if they planned to

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