Resistance, War, and Expansion
You should be familiar with the following topics for your exam:
- The different ways that Native Americans encountered and dealt with white American settlers
- The regions where most battles between westward settlers and Native Americans took place
- The tactics the federal government used to subdue the Native American population
- How American conflicts with the British were complicated by those conflicts Americans had with the Native Americans
- The causes and highlights of the War of 1812
- Events and forces that led to the war’s end
- How the slavery issue grew more controversial as new states entered the Union