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after 1832: Harriet Martineau; Tocqueville Richard Cobden s 

 views in the thirties American opinions of British formed by 

 observation of immigrants Judgments due to this fact and 

 to the treatment of the Chartists. 



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Van Buren and Victoria at the head of the governments in 1837 

 Political ebullition in the Canadas Conflict of the races in 

 Lower Canada United Empire Loyalists versus later-comers 

 in Upper Canada Insurrections of Papineau and Mackenzie, 

 1837 Defeated insurgents make raids from United States 

 Steamer Caroling destroyed on American side by Canadian 

 troops Arrest of McLeod in New York for complicity, 1840 

 Extreme tension and ill feeling till his acquittal, 1841 Simul 

 taneous grounds of ill feeling in Maine, Texas, and Oregon 

 Lord Durham s mission and report as to Canada His com 

 parison of the Canadas and the United States Views of Rad 

 icals and of Cobden as to future of colonies Durham favors 

 policy looking to Canadian nationality Union of the two 

 Canadas by constitution of 1841 Failure of arbitration and 

 negotiation as to the northeastern boundary of the United 

 States New Brunswick lumbermen and Maine militia: the 

 Aroostook War Renewed diplomacy, more surveys, no agree 

 ment American Whigs in power at Washington; British 

 Whigs out of power at London Webster secretary of state; 

 Aberdeen succeeds the truculent Palmerston Friction over 

 search of American ships by British slave-trade patrol Web- 

 ster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842: criticised by British, Americans, 

 and Canadians Controversies settled by it Conventional 

 line fixed between Maine and New Brunswick The red-line 

 map and other maps Joint patrol of the African slave coast 

 agreed to The diplomatic debate over search, visitation, and 

 approach -The pcpular forces behind the diplomacy Webster 

 sets impressment over against slavery The case of the Creole 

 American expansionist movements bring friction in the South 

 and the West British policy as to Texas Annexation to 

 United States strongly opposed by Aberdeen Anti-British 

 feeling strong among American annexationists British and 

 American fur-traders in Oregon Missionaries and settlers 

 from the East enter by the Oregon Trail Popular demand in 

 the United States for the whole of the Oregon territory: &quot;fifty- 

 four forty or fight&quot; President Polk indicates a positive atti 

 tude Buchanan-Pakenham negotiations for division of region, 



