Compare and contrast the social and economic systems of the Northeast, South, and Western Frontier (Kentucky, Ohio Valley, etc.), with respect to geography and climate, and the development of the following:
Explain the ideology of the institution of slavery, its policies, and consequences.
Analyze the expansion, conquest, and settlement of the West through the Louisiana Purchase, the removal of indigenous peoples (Trail of Tears) from their native lands, the growth of a system of commercial agriculture, and the idea of Manifest Destiny.
Develop an argument based on evidence about the positive and negative consequences of territorial and economic expansion on indigenous peoples, the institution of slavery, and the relations between free and slaveholding states.
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