Indian Removal Act
This law, passed in the 1830s, forced Native Americans to leave their lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Name one of the five main tribes affected by the Trail of Tears.
What is Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, or Seminole?
The journey west was called this because of the suffering it caused.
What is the Trail of Tears?
The Trail of Tears is remembered as this type of chapter in American history.
What is a tragic chapter?
The Indian Removal Act promised new land in this present-day state.
What is Oklahoma?
The Cherokee were forced to leave this state in 1838.
What is Georgia?
Native Americans faced harsh weather, hunger, disease, exhaustion, and this type of dangerous crossings.
What are river crossings?
Families were separated and homes were abandoned, leaving this behind.
What are crops or possessions?
Americans wanted Native American lands for farming, growing this cash crop.
What is cotton?
Many tribes had lived on their lands for many generations, building homes, farms, and this type of community structure.
What are schools or towns?
The trail went through states including Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and this state.
What is Oklahoma?
Monuments, museums, and historical sites help people do this about the Trail of Tears.
What is learn or remember?
Some Americans believed removing Native Americans would allow the United States to grow faster and make the land more this.
What is “useful” or productive?
Historians estimate that about this many Cherokee died during the Trail of Tears.
What is 4,000?
True or False: All tribes traveled the exact same route during the Trail of Tears.
What is false?
The Trail of Tears highlights both the struggles and this quality of Native Americans.
What is resilience?
True or False: Native Americans were given an easy, comfortable journey to their new lands.
What is false?
Besides the Cherokee, name one other tribe that suffered heavy losses on the Trail of Tears.
What is Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, or Seminole?
Despite hardships, Native Americans preserved these three important aspects of their culture.
What are language, religion, and traditions?
The unfair treatment of Native Americans during this time shows a conflict between government policies and these people’s rights.
What are Native Americans’ rights?