Dec 17, 2009

Westward Expansion Almanac | 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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