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AP U.S. History 2.3 Period 3: 1754-1800. Settler expansion encouraged by the Northwest Ordinance had what effect on Indian-colonist relations?
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[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by territorial expansion,
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the act of ripping land away from someone else.
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All right, here's our excerpt.
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[ mumbles ]
Full Transcript
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[ mumbling continues ]
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All right, and now the question:
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Settler expansion encouraged by the Northwest Ordinance
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had what effect on Indian-colonist relations?
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And here are your potential answers.
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[ drumbeat ]
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Well, we know that the Northwest Ordinance
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created new territories for American
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colonists who wanted to move to the, uh, well... north and west.
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Over here.
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So we just need to figure out what kind of impact
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that had on relations with American Indians.
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Did the Northwest Ordinance affect
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Indian-colonist relations by
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A - facilitating greater
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interaction and understanding?
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Well, the Ordinance did mandate that colonists
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should act with the utmost good faith with regard to
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American Indian tribes, but they didn't.
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And the American Indians were pretty upset.
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Makes sense, right? Colonists were moving
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onto land that had traditionally belonged to American Indians.
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So they were bound to be some problems.
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Yeah, A is out.
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Did settler expansion from the Northwest Ordinance
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B - encourage the American Indians
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to align with the French?
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Actually, most of the American Indians
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in this part of the U.S. were allied amongst themselves,
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even though their combined power still wasn't enough
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to defeat the colonists. So that eliminates B, as well.
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But maybe the Northwest Ordinance C -
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allowed the British to gain greater control of the area.
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Well, remember the 1783 Treaty of Paris?
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That was the treaty between the British and the Americans
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that ended the American Revolution.
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And part of the Treaty was that the British would
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leave the Northwest territories alone.
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Sort of a "you stay out of my backyard,
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and I'll stay out of yours." kind of deal.
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So it definitely isn't C.
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That must mean the Northwest Ordinance D -
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produced conflicts that shrank Indian territory.
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Oh, boy, did it ever.
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As colonists pressed further west,
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they came into conflict more and more often with
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Indian Americans. And after the U.S. army suffered
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several humiliating defeats in the area,
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George Washington commissioned a new fighting force
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that defeated a confederation of American Indian tribes,
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forcing them to cede much of their territory,
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which is how we got Ohio.
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So the answer is D.
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Sort of gives a whole new meaning to the word
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"shrinkage."
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[ whooping ]
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