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Commercial Agriculture and the Settlement of the Midwest

Early Westward Expansion and Indigenous Removal

7th Grade·Social Studies·US-MI-SS

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Explain how federal land policies and new farming technologies encouraged thousands of settlers to establish commercial farms in the Old Northwest.

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Early Westward Expansion and Indigenous Removal

7th Grade · Social Studies · US-MI-SS

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Examine early territorial growth, the ideological justifications for expansion, and the policy and human impact of forced Indigenous removal.

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8 – U4.2.3Michigan Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Westward Expansion – analyze the annexation of the west through the Louisiana Purchase, the removal of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral homelands, the Mexican-American War, the growth of a system of commercial agriculture, and the idea of Manifest Destiny.