this blog is about the American perspective on the war of 1812. in class we learn about how during the war of 1812 how we "Canada" needed to win and how much better we are then them. it seems as we are taught that we were right but the Americans were just doing the same, trying to find a trading route, and land. schools in America are probably taught about how they were right.
American traders wanted to trade but had problems with Britain so to solve there problems they were going to fight the closest thing, which being Canada. America lost they fight. Britain was also fighting the Napoleonic wars, while also battling with the Americans in the new world. the Americans weren't just fighting British since they wanted land they were fighting the First Nations as well. remember when i said Americans are taught different they are taught they fought with British not Canada. but makes sense because Canada was mostly British and First nations. they are also taught it was fought on American soil. but both countries teach that they were they won and that they were right.
Reference:
http://www.pbs.org/wned/war-of-1812/essays/american-perspective/
ReplyDeleteCarson I liked your post about the American perspective. I find that many times we forget about the American point of view . The issue is our society teaches the Canada was right and the Americans were wrong but the Americans likely think they were right and we were wrong. The war of 1812 is still a controversial subject anyway. It boils down to one thing in war no one is right and no one is wrong simple as that. War changes nothing just makes you more angry.
Take our wars in Syria for example. What is being achieved? Who is right? Who is wrong?
The answer is nothing is being achieved and the ones being affected are children and women. Thousands coming to the U.S or Canada 40,81 Syrian refugees we have let in and that is one of the reasons why everything is so costly. We must pay for these people, they come to Canada, work cheap jobs and barely even know English. No homes but the government is supporting them and how are we paying for this. Groceries go up, taxes go up and cost of living goes up. This situation is similar to the post 1812 era many loyalist were forced to leave their homes and come Canada. This rose many issues. The one was loyalty are they really loyal or are they working for the Americans. This period was very tense and scary for many people but it seems history is repeating itself once again. Right now we are living in a tense and scary time as well.
Hey carson i loved your post and really like how you look at the situation from both points of view not just the canadian veiwpoint. We are not always right and their are very few examples where a war or fight is 100% justified. Its mostly just how we fight these battles, how we treat those who are conquered and how we accomodate them into society. Now we might not be completely right in this situation because we forced the first nations to be part of European culture and forced them into residential schools to achieve this goal. The Americans were worse in regard to treatment, but by no means were we angels to them, but at least we didnt slaughter thousands of them and rejected all of their culture. Sadly only really recently have we started accepting their viewpoints in canada. Every side in a war believes they were right be it because of ideology or religious beliefs but regardless the main thing is that no matter what a side usually believes in what they are doing and is one of the reasons they do it, of course they could be conscripted and forced to violate their morale code of course these are all things you must take into account when deciding who is right and who is wrong. But ultimately it all comes down to your own beliefs and core values. Now thank you carson for making a post that made me think and have a good day.
ReplyDeleteSup then Carson, I really liked your blog post, I like how you mentioned that we are probably all taught differently because of how the Americans probably think that they are the good guys, while we thing we are. It’s interesting to know that we are taught differently when it could be wrong. If you really realize is both the Americans and the British soldiers were fighting atleast two wars at the same time, because they wanted land and trade and all that. I mean the First Nations wouldn’t ever want to give up their land and no one would, that’s why we had these wars
ReplyDeleteHey Carson I think you did pretty good on this blog I like the fact that you were showing point of views form either side Canada and America, and that every side was teaching everyone that the were right in this war. Not everyone can be right all the time especially in war which most people would be bias on there opinions. But I feel like you could've added more info about the war of 1812 in this blog to get the word count. For the battles you could've talked about we had a lot of info on 5 of the major battles that happened in our notes, The first battle of we talked about was the battle of fort Detroit where the Canadians won by scaring the at night. the next battle that took place was the ballet of Queenston heights then came the Americans going to York/Toronto. Then you could've talked about the bloody battle OF Lundy's lane and finally the battle of Washington. you could've went into more detail hen I did explaining this. Also you could've added a picture that has to do with the war of 1812 to get a slightly better mark, and since you were doing the American perspective you could've added how the war of 1812 affected there country in either positive and or negative ways. But you still did a pretty good job Carson keep it up
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