Moving West, and Dividing Over Slavery
Native nations recalculated repeatedly
- Various American Indian groups repeatedly evaluated and adjusted their alliances with Europeans, other tribes, and the United States, seeking to limit migration of white settlers and maintain control of tribal lands and natural resources.
- Repeatedly evaluated and adjusted describes deliberate, ongoing policy — not reaction.
- British alliances with American Indians contributed to tensions between the United States and Britain, so native diplomacy shaped international relations.
'Repeatedly evaluated and adjusted' describes native alliances as...
Not reaction — and it shaped international relations.
Frontier cultures kept growing
- As increasing numbers of migrants from North America and other parts of the world continued to move westward, frontier cultures that had emerged in the colonial period continued to grow, fuelling social, political, and ethnic tensions.
- Continued appears twice: both the migration and the cultures are carried over from before independence.
- Three kinds of tension are named — social, political, and ethnic — and they are different, not synonyms.
Select all three kinds of tension frontier growth fuelled.
They are different, not synonyms.
Two opposite movements about slavery
- The expansion of slavery in the deep South and adjacent western lands and rising antislavery sentiment began to create distinctive regional attitudes toward slavery.
- One sentence holds expansion and rising antislavery sentiment together, and the result is regional distinctiveness.
- Began to create marks a starting point — this is where the sectional problem of units 4 and 5 originates.
Native diplomacy, frontier tension, or the slavery divide?
Sort each element of westward movement.
Select both movements the CED puts in one sentence about slavery.
Together they began to create distinctive regional attitudes.
An attitude becomes a region when geography and economy sort the people who hold it. The CED puts the expansion of slavery in the deep South and adjacent western lands and rising antislavery sentiment in one sentence, and says together they began to create distinctive regional attitudes — the sectional problem of units 4 and 5 starts here.
'____ to create distinctive regional attitudes' marks a starting point.
The sectional problem of units 4 and 5 originates here.
Why the two movements produced regions
- Expansion happened where the crop and the land allowed; antislavery sentiment rose where the labour system was not the economic base.
- 3.7's Northwest Ordinance had already banned slavery in one territory, which draws a line on a map.
- So an attitude becomes a region when geography and economy sort the people who hold it.
The link between 3.12's two objectives is...
It produced frontier tension and carried slavery into new lands.
Two objectives, one movement
- 3.12 asks about migration and immigration causing competition and conflict and about regional attitudes about slavery as it expanded.
- Westward movement is the link: it produced frontier tension and carried slavery into new lands.
- State the link once and both objectives are answered from the same evidence.
Two neighbours can disagree about a practice for a lifetime and it stays a disagreement. Draw a boundary so that everyone on one side agrees with one of them, and the same disagreement has become a border.
Various American Indian groups repeatedly evaluated and adjusted their alliances... seeking to limit migration of white settlers and maintain control of tribal lands, and British alliances with American Indians contributed to tensions between the United States and Britain. Frontier cultures that had emerged in the colonial period continued to grow, fuelling social, political, and ethnic tensions. The expansion of slavery in the deep South and adjacent western lands and rising antislavery sentiment began to create distinctive regional attitudes toward slavery.