<P> In the Southeast, Andrew Jackson's destruction of Britain's allies, the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814, ended the threat of Native American hostilities in that region . It opened vast areas in Georgia and Alabama for settlement as plantations and farmlands . The U.S. occupied all of West Florida during the war and in 1819 purchased the rest of Florida from Spain, thus preventing the Spanish from arming hostile tribes there . Creek Indians who escaped to Spanish Florida joined the Seminoles there, and put up a long resistance known as the Seminole Wars . </P> <P> In the treaty, the British promised not to arm the Native Americans in the U.S. from Canada (nor even trade with them), and the U.S. - Canada border was largely pacified . However, some Americans assumed that the British continued to conspire with their former Native American allies in an attempt to forestall U.S. hegemony in the Great Lakes region . Such perceptions were faulty, argues Calloway (1987). After the Treaty of Ghent, the Native Americans in the Great Lakes region became an undesirable burden to British policymakers . </P> <P> Some in Washington had expected the largely American population of Upper Canada to throw off the "British yoke", but that did not happen . After 1815, British officials, Anglican clergy and Canadians loyal to the Empire tried to spot and root out American ideals, such as democracy and republicanism . Thus, the British and Loyalist elite were able to set the different colonies, of what would later become Canada, on a different course from that of their former enemy . Canada discouraged further American immigration . </P> <P> When the United States attacked British North America, most of the British forces were engaged in the Napoleonic Wars . Thus, British North America had minimal troops to defend against the United States, who had a much larger (though initially poorly trained) military force . For most of the war, British North America stood alone against a much stronger American force . Reinforcements from the United Kingdom did not arrive until 1814, the final year of the war . The repelling of the American force helped to foster British loyalties in the colonies that later became Canada . </P>

Which is the most significant outcome of the war of 1812