Oklahoma Social Studies 5.C.7.3.C

Social Studies5th GradeContent Standards

The Standard

5.C.7: Summarize the growth of a new nation under the leadership of Presidents Washington, Adams, and Jefferson.
5.C.7.3: Explain the impact of President Thomas Jefferson’s presidency, including

efforts to enter and maintain treaties with American Indian Nations.

Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · 5.C.7.3

Teacher's field guide

What Students Need to Do: Students explain why the U.S. government made treaties with American Indian Nations and what each side agreed to do. They use later events to check whether treaty promises were kept.
What Mastery Looks Like: A student can identify the land promised to the Lakota in the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. They can explain how the U.S. takeover of the Black Hills broke that promise.
Common Misconceptions: Students may think American Indian Nations were not governments that could make treaties. They may also assume that signing a treaty meant both sides kept every promise.
How to Assess It: Exit ticket: Read a treaty sentence promising land to the Lakota and a sentence about the 1877 U.S. takeover of the Black Hills. What promise was made, and was it kept?

Lesson moves

Give pairs a short Fort Laramie Treaty excerpt and a map; have them shade the promised land and label each side's promises.
Ask students to write two sentences answering, 'Did the U.S. keep its Black Hills promise?' using the treaty and a map.
Hand out cards with treaty promises and later U.S. actions; teams match each action to a promise and decide if it was kept.
Locate the Black Hills on a current South Dakota map, then ask why the 1868 land promise remains part of land claims.

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