Claiming the Near West: Territorial Expansion to 1812
- Disrupting the balance of power
- The French and Indian War (1754–63)
- Opening the West
- The Revolutionary War (1776–83)
- Excerpts from the Land Ordinance of 1785
- The Ordinance of 1785
- The Northwest Ordinance
- Taking Indian land
- Land sales
- Carving farms from the forests
- Obstacles to expansion
- The Louisiana Purchase
- The coming of the War of 1812
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