Overview
Description
Expansion and growth of the United States with emphasis on the westward movement; the conquest and settlement of regions west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Core
CO10
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- recognize and discuss the complicated negotiations, adaptations, and confrontations that Native peoples faced vis-à-vis a constantly expanding Euro-American society that also adopted Native life styles and foods in this New World environment.
- discuss the consequences of the expansion and transfer of European political, economic, technological, and religious practices and institutions to the coastal settlements and river valleys of eastern North America in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- discuss how the complicated land and governmental system designed by the new American republic facilitates and legitimatizes its expansion westward.
- interpret, analyze and synthesize primary, secondary, and cultural sources in order to complete written assignments.