| Response sheet 5, for lecture class, Tuesday | |
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(You can find the articles by Claudio Saunt and Robert Lee under Files in Canvas.) 1. According to Saunt, what were the key financial instruments used to disposses Native Americans in the American Southeast? 2. Who was involved in each of the financial instruments? Precisely what did each financial instrument finance, toward the goal of dispossession — and subsequent transformation of land into a plantation/slave economy, in the case of the American Southeast? 3. How did the financial instruments work so that Native Americans contributed financially to their own dispossession? 4. According to Lee, how much did the Louisiana Purchase actually cost? Why did it cost that much? |