3/18 Starter: Define these terms in Quizlet!
1. relocation
2. ancestral
3.civilized
4.convert
5.treaty
6.voluntary
7.negotiate
8.barge
9.small pox
10.forage
3/18 Classwork: Watch the video "Trail of Tears"
answer the true or false worksheet and complete the "identify activity" explain the meaning and hazard of each icon.
answer the true or false worksheet and complete the "identify activity" explain the meaning and hazard of each icon.
3/19 Trail of Tears Starter: Read page 100-103 and the passage to the right. |
In 1838, the United States government forcibly removed more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (today known as Oklahoma).
The impact to the Cherokee was devastating. Hundreds of Cherokee died during their trip west, and thousands more perished from the consequences of relocation. This tragic chapter in American and Cherokee history became known as the Trail of Tears, and culminated the implementation of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which mandated the removal of all American Indian tribes east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West. Thirty-one forts were built for this purpose on the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. The Trail runs through Arkansas and had many stopping points in the state. |