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Review: Expansion Slavery and Resistance

Explain expansion alongside displacement and struggles over slavery.

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Unit review questions
1. Use the historical notes. A card describes incoming people building permanent homes. Which choice best fits?
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  • Tell the 1803 purchase of France’s claim apart from gathering information, establishing homes and forcing people from homelands.
  • Find the note for Settlement. Check which words in this card match it.
2. Use the historical notes. A card describes Native petitions opposing displacement. Which choice best fits?
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  • Tell a removal plan apart from forced movement, resistance and the government’s argument defending the plan.
  • Find the note for Resistance. Check which words in this card match it.
3. Use the historical notes. A card describes a person seeking freedom from enslavement. Which choice best fits?
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  • Look for coercive control of people, efforts to end slavery, actions to reach freedom or a network assisting freedom seekers.
  • Find the note for Freedom seeking. Check which words in this card match it.
4. Use the historical notes. A card describes a plan to expand crop production. Which choice best fits?
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  • Identify the stated claim: Native self-government, a settler’s land claim, an economic goal or a dispute over expanding slavery.
  • Find the note for Economic motive. Check which words in this card match it.

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Make four small boxes for Expansion Slavery and Resistance, one for each lesson: Louisiana Purchase and Its Limits; Indian Removal and Native Resistance; Slavery Abolition and Freedom Seeking; Expansion and Competing Claims. In each box, choose one supplied card and explain its match using the notes. Compare two of your cards: what makes their matches different? You may write, draw or explain your answers aloud. Use the lesson cards; you do not need a purchase, interview, personal record or trip. For the adult helping: keep the fictional examples and historical notes distinct; these short cards do not tell every detail about a person or place.

Work on paper or in your own document. Explain the choices you made.

  • Choose one supplied card from each lesson: Louisiana Purchase and Its Limits; Indian Removal and Native Resistance; Slavery Abolition and Freedom Seeking; Expansion and Competing Claims.
  • Use the notes to name each match and explain its clue.
  • Compare two cards and say or show how their clues differ.
  • Keep the events and details as written; do not make up a quotation or new event.
  • With an adult, name one question the cards do not answer.
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Louisiana Purchase and Its Limits: The card says: “A card identifies the U.S. agreement with France in 1803.” That matches Louisiana Purchase. Louisiana Purchase is the 1803 purchase of France’s territorial claim. Compare: The card says: “A card describes an expedition recording routes and observations.” That matches Exploration. Exploration is travel intended to gather information about a region. Indian Removal and Native Resistance: The card says: “A card describes a federal plan to move Native nations west.” That matches Removal policy. Removal policy is government action seeking forced relocation of Native communities. Compare: The card says: “A card describes Cherokee people forced from homelands in 1838–1839.” That matches Forced relocation. Forced relocation is people compelled to leave their home places. Slavery Abolition and Freedom Seeking: The card says: “A historical card describes people being sold as property.” That matches Enslavement. Enslavement is coercive ownership and control of people. Compare: The card says: “A historical card describes campaigning against slavery.” That matches Abolitionism. Abolitionism is efforts to end slavery. Expansion and Competing Claims: The card says: “A card describes a Native nation asserting self-government.” That matches Native sovereignty. Native sovereignty is a Native nation’s authority to govern itself. Compare: The card says: “A historical-style card describes settlers claiming a farm site.” That matches Settler land claim. Settler land claim is a newcomer’s assertion of entitlement to land. Adult checking note: This model uses the supplied lesson cards and notes. It does not describe every person, community or place. Answering a new question would need a matching source or a new observation.

A different response can also meet the criteria. Compare the evidence and reasoning, rather than copying the wording.