3.12: Movement in the Early Republic

American Indian Relations

• Repeatedly adjusted alliances with US, Europeans, and other tribes

• Goal: limit migration of white settlers and maintain contorl of tribal lands and natural resources

• British w NAs raised tensions between US and Britain

Westward Migration

• Increasing numbers of migrants from North America and other parts of the world moved westward

• Frontier cultures that had emerged in colonial period grew

  • Social, political, ethnic tensions

Slavery

• Expansion in deep South and Sest + rising antislavery sentiment = distinctive regional attitudes toward slavery