History of the United States I / Unit 7 USH1 0915 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Middle Ground and the Northwest Indian War
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The idea
The middle ground became a battle zone that no one group controlled. Joseph Brant formed a Western Confederacy, and the Northwest Indian War ran from seventeen eighty-five to seventeen ninety-five.
In practice
Americans massacring ninety-six Christian Delawares in seventeen eighty-two, most of them women and children.
Where people slip
The Treaty of Greenville in seventeen ninety-five gave the United States dominion over Ohio.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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