Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
Chapter 14, Lesson 1: The Moving Frontier (pp. 340-344)
I. The Appalachian Frontier
B. When Britain took over the area, they passed a law called the Proclamation of 1763 that ordered colonists to stay out of Indian land.
II. Early Pioneers
B. The Wilderness Road made travel easier to the new frontier.
C. When settlers arrived, most Indians moved farther west.
B. Each territory could become a state when the white population reached 60,000.
C. The ordinance guaranteed freedom of religion and outlawed slavery.
Lesson at a Glance Outline
A. A vast unexplored territory west of the Appalachian Mountains was claimed by France before 1763.
A. Daniel Boone built the Wilderness Road in 1775.
III. The Northwest Ordinance
A. Congress divided the land north of the Ohio River into separate territories.
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