Oklahoma Social Studies 5.C.7.3

5.C.7.3 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• 5.C.7.3.A

  the purchase of Louisiana Territory and its effect on westward expansion

• 5.C.7.3.B

  geographic and scientific knowledge gained from the Meriwether Lewis and William Clark expedition

• 5.C.7.3.C

  efforts to enter and maintain treaties with American Indian Nations.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how the Louisiana Purchase expanded U.S. land claims and encouraged settlement west. They describe what Lewis and Clark recorded about rivers, plants, animals, and Native nations. They explain Jefferson's efforts to make and maintain treaties with Native nations.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student marks the purchase and the expedition route on a map. They connect the purchase to westward settlement and the expedition to new maps and scientific records. They explain that Native nations already lived on and governed these lands, and that treaty promises mattered.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think France sold empty land or that Lewis and Clark discovered places no one knew about. They may assume Native nations had no say in treaties or that the U.S. government kept every treaty promise.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a blank map and ask them to shade the Louisiana Purchase. Have them write three sentences: one effect on settlement, one fact learned from the expedition, and one effect of treaty efforts on Native nations.

1. 01

   Give pairs an 1803 map and tracing paper; shade the purchase, trace Lewis and Clark's route, and label two Native nations along it.

2. 02

   Ask: How could the purchase look like an opportunity to U.S. settlers and a threat to a Native nation? Write both viewpoints.

3. 03

   Play a card sort matching the purchase, expedition records, and treaty promises to their effects on settlement, knowledge, and Native land.

4. 04

   Use a current tribal nations map to find the Osage Nation, then compare its location with the Louisiana Purchase on an 1803 map.

• 8.C.6

  Analyze the political, constitutional, and geographic changes that occurred during the Jeffersonian Era.

• 5.C.7.1

  Describe the presidential leadership of George Washington, including the

• 5.C.7

  Summarize the growth of a new nation under the leadership of Presidents Washington, Adams, and Jefferson.

• 8.C.6.3

  Examine the policies of President Thomas Jefferson by describing significant decisions to