NCES.AH2.H.3 - Understand the factors that led to exploration, settlement, movement, and expansion and their impact on United States development over time.
NCES.AH2.H.3.2
American History II
Explain how environmental, cultural and economic factors influenced the patterns of migration and settlement within the United States since the end of Reconstruction (e.g., gold rush, destruction of the buffalo, reservations, ethnic neighborhoods, etc.).