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By the time students complete this playlist, they should be able to:
1. Identify the patterns of US Western migration between 1785 and 1840
2. Identify the causes and effects of the forced removal of American Indians to the trans-Mississippi West between 1830 and 1840 and connect the western expansion of the US to cultural interactions between "new" Americans and native Americans
3. Identify the causes and effects of the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 and connect the motivations and results of the Mexican-American War to US expansion, including the debate over the expansion of slavery in the US