Challenges of Expansion

EQ: Did the benefits of expansion outweigh the costs?

Engage:

• Following the Frontier Line Interactive Map
•  Westward Expansion and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (2:39)

Explore:

•  Settling the Northwest
• The Union Grows
• New States in the Southeast
• Native American Resistance
• A System to Unify America
• A National Transportation System
• The American System

Explain:

• How did the Northwest Ordinance aid the expansion of the United States?
• Which Northern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
• Which Southern states were added to the Union in the beginning of the 1800's?
• How did Native Americans react to the early expansion?
• What was the American System?
• How did transportation improve?
• What economic measures supported the American System?

Evaluate:

• Worksheet
• Vocabulary

1. Land Ordinance of 1785
2.  Northwest Ordinance of 1787 
3. Erie Canal
4. market revolution
5.  Gibbons v. Ogden
6. National Road
7. Adams-Onís Treaty  
8. pioneer 
9. McCulloch v. Maryland, 
10. Tariff of 1816 
11. meridian 
12. Treaty of Ghent