An Expanding Nation Practice Quiz
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In the 1780s, expansion efforts to the north and south of the Ohio River were met with resistance by Native Americans. Cherokees, Creeks, and Shawnees banded together to battle for their land along the
Kentucky and Georgia borders. The Washington Administration attempted to end hostilities with
the Treaty of Holston , but a disliked and dishonest governor botched the negotiations. As similar hostilities began north of the Ohio River, Native Americans banded together to have an even wider defense. However, after being defeated by Washington in 1794 and ending their alliance with
Britain
, Native Americans in the north ceded a large portion of land to the United States.
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White settlement beyond the original colonies increased as families sought fertile land and lower taxes. However, this expansion was met with resistance by Native Americans who already inhabited these outer lands. Militant Cherokees, referred to as Chickamaugas, built alliances with other Native American tribes and battled for their land along the frontier from Kentucky to Georgia. The governor of
the Tennessee territory, William Blount—a land speculator whom the Cherokees referred to as the “dirt
king” for his apparent greed—was sent to negotiate with the Cherokees. Blount was unsuccessful and fighting continued, as Native Americans on both sides of the Ohio River united to battle the settlers. Ultimately, a lack of Spanish supplies due to the start of war in Europe, a defeat at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, and the end of an alliance with the British caused the Native Americans to sign the Treaty of Greenville and cede to the United States much of what is now Ohio.
Imagine that you are a Spanish settler in 1790, and you are talking with your son about your recent travels from Florida to New Mexico. Use the dropdown menus to complete the conversation.
YOU:
Are you happy to see me home? I hope it is not a surprise, since passage across Texas is
much safer now.
YOUR SON:
I want to hear all of your stories. Did you see any Apaches up close?
YOU:
Thankfully I did not, but I did see some surprising sights while in Florida. The promise of free land has caused some Protestants to agree to
baptize their children as Catholic .
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In 1790, Spain’s control in the United States spanned from East Florida to the Gulf of Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and California. Even though these lands were viewed as buffers against the Americans and British gaining access to Mexico’s silver, Spain opened these territories to American settlers. Hoping to increase settler populations in these areas, the Spanish offered free land in the Floridas and Louisiana, even allowing Protestants to keep their religion if they pledged allegiance to the crown and baptized their children as Catholic. During this time the Spanish in New Mexico were able to achieve peace with Comanches and Apaches, making travel and economic development safer. Across California, missions and presidios were established to protect the Spanish from Russian and British incursions. However, Spanish prosperity did not extend to the Pacific Northwest after trade for sea otter furs became popular. With England threatening war, Spain signed the Nootka Convention (1790) and yielded its claim to the area, but the two countries failed to negotiate a northern boundary for California.
Imagine that you are reading the editorial section of a newspaper in 1819. However, some of the words have been smudged by rain. Using your knowledge of westward exploration and expansion after
1803, use the dropdown menus to complete the article.
Progress That Divides Us
Here we are, the North and the South, a nation divided. When members of the Senate deliberated for weeks over the Missouri Compromise, I imagine that dividing the nation was not one of their intended goals. First on their minds was creating a balance between the numbers of slave and free states. As a result, Missouri was admitted to the Union along with
Maine . While there were a number of other measures included in this compromise, listing them will not help us to remember the excitement we once had for advancing this great nation.
Think back to the time of the Louisiana Purchase. Jefferson had just reduced
Spanish dominance west of the Mississippi and, more important, believed he had extended the life of the republic by providing space for future generations of Americans.
With each step forward, we must not take two steps back. If Lewis and Clark had lived by these rules, they never would have set out for the
Pacific Ocean . This article is intended not to provide a history lesson, but to serve as a reminder of a time when Americans were unified by a common purpose.
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 originated out of a need to balance political and economic power, mainly by having a balance between the number of slave and free states. Missouri would remain a slave state and be admitted to the Union. Maine would be admitted into the Union as a free state, keeping the balance of power between free and slave states. Additionally, it was decided that slavery would be prohibited in all the lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase that were north of the southern border of Missouri—with the exception of Arkansas—and slaves who escaped to free states would be returned. Even though a balance of power was reached, debates over slavery created a division in the Union between the North and the South.
This article’s author wanted readers to remember the themes surrounding the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Louisiana Purchase involved the selling of the Louisiana Territory by Napoleon to the United States, doubling the size of the United States and reducing Spain’s dominance in the West. Lewis and Clark set out on an expedition to the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage, gain geographic knowledge of the unexplored West, and gain descriptions of unknown species of plants and animals.
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