Indiana State History Museum
Indiana considers itself the “Crossroads of America,” because of its central location. Indiana State Museum Chief Curator Susannah Koerber toured the museum to explain how the area has grown since its early Native American inhabitants, to statehood in 1816, through settlement and industrialization.
Description
Indiana considers itself the “Crossroads of America,” because of its central location. Indiana State Museum Chief Curator Susannah Koerber toured the museum to explain how the area has grown since its early Native American inhabitants, to statehood in 1816, through settlement and industrialization.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Describe some of the artifacts that were highlighted in the First Nations exhibit.
- Explain the significance of the city of Vincennes, Indiana.
- According to Susannah Koerber, why was there conflict among groups in the Northwest Territory after the American Revolution?
- Describe the outcomes of these conflicts that occurred in this area.
- Who was William Henry Harrison and how did he influence the Indiana area?
- Describe Abraham Lincoln's early life with his family in Indiana.
- Explain the development of transportation in this area in the early 1800s.
- Explain the development of the automobile industry in the Rise of New Industries in Indiana between 1920-1940.
- Describe the growth of Indiana after WWII as Susannah Koerber discusses.
Additional Resources
Participants
Vocabulary
- Alliance
- American Revolution
- Archeologist
- Aristocratic
- Artifact
- Battle Of Fallen Timbers
- Consumer
- Democratic
- Economy
- Export
- Faction
- Hub
- Industry
- Inner Urban
- Navigable
- Northwest Ordinance
- Northwest Territory
- Obsidian
- Opposition
- Outpost
- Pioneer
- Projectile
- Raw Material. Cede
- Treaty
- Treaty Of Greenville
- Utilitarian
- Vessel