STAGE 1
STAGE 3
STAGE 2
STAGE 4
Photos by National Museum of American History Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, Currier & Ives, Dorothea
Lange, and the US Army Corps of Engineers
When studying the Calumet region of Illinois and Indiana, Alfred Meyer noted four stages of development as new
groups occupied this land. In stage 1,.
Native American communities made use of natural resources.
A fur trading
B.
conurbanization
C. subsistence agriculture
D. commercial agriculture