Indigenous Resistance to Removal: Black Hawk War and Seminole Wars
Analyze military, diplomatic, and legal strategies used by Native American nations to resist forced displacement from their ancestral lands.

Analyze military, diplomatic, and legal strategies used by Native American nations to resist forced displacement from their ancestral lands.
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7th Grade · Social Studies · US-MI-SS
6 lessons
Examine early territorial growth, the ideological justifications for expansion, and the policy and human impact of forced Indigenous removal.
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.
Consequences of Expansion – develop an argument based on evidence about the positive and negative consequences of territorial and economic expansion on Indigenous Peoples, efforts to maintain and sustain the institution of slavery, and the relations between free and slave-holding states.