Michigan's early history
Students will be able to:
- Explain how historians use primary and secondary sources to answer questions about the past
- Describe the causal relationship between three events in Michigan's past (Erie Canal, more people came, statehood)
- Use traditional Native American stories of those who lived in Michigan (Ojibway, Odawa, and Potawatami, and others) to make generalizations about their beliefs
- Compare how American Indians and settlers in the early history of Michigan adapted to, used, and modified their environment
- Describe interactions that occured between American Indians and the first European explorers and settlers in Michigan
- Costruct a historical narrative about daily life in the early settlements of Michigan (pre-statehood)
- Describe how Michigan attained statehood
- Create a timeline to sequence early Michigan history (American Indians, exploration, settlement, statehood)
- Use data and current information about the Anishinaabeg and other American Indians living in Michigan today to describe the cultural aspects of modern American Indian life