History 270: The United States to 1865
Spring Semester 1999 - Dr. Thomas R. Maddux
Lecture Outline
Expansion with Honor?

  1. Federalist-Jeffersonian Indian Policy
    1. Situation in 1790 with Shawnee in Northwest and Cherokee in the Southwest: Daniel Boone and Tecumseh
    2. Orderly, gradual, peaceful expansion as ideal
    3. Challenges to policy
      1. Frontier sentiment on Indians
      2. Indian views on assimilation
        1. Seneca and Handsome Lake
        2. Cherokee
  2. Policy in action
    1. Northwest Confederation
    2. Boone and Shawnee to Missouri
    3. Tecumseh
    4. Jefferson: trade, debts, land

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