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Georgia Standards of Excellence in Social Studies:

• SS4E1.a — Describe opportunity cost and its relationship to decision-making across time (e.g., decisions to settle in the west).
• SS4H3.c — Describe territorial expansion with emphasis on the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the acquisitions of Texas (the Alamo and independence), Oregon (Oregon Trail), and California (Gold Rush and the development of mining towns).
• SS4G2.b — Describe physical barriers that hindered and physical gateways that benefited territorial expansion from 1801 to 1861.
• SS4E1.d — Explain how voluntary exchange helps both buyers and sellers (e.g., Gold Rush mining towns).
• SS4H3.b — Describe the impact of westward expansion on American Indians; include the Trail of Tears, Battle of Little Bighorn and the forced relocation of American Indians to reservations.
• MGS.7 — Map and Globe Skill 7: use a map to explain impact of geography on historical and current events (mastered in Grade 4)

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