Trail of Tears

Questions

1. What was the Trail of Tears?
2. Who was Andrew Jackson and what part did he play in the Trail of Tears?
3. What caused the Cherokee Indians to be removed from their land?
4. What did each of these people think of the Trail of Tears?
• President Andrew Jackson
• Major Ridge
• Justice John Marshall
• Chief John Ross
5. What was the Supreme Court's decision concerning the removal of the Cherokee?
6. Describe the journey of the Cherokee to Oklahoma.
• How many people went?
• How many survived?
7. Where are the Cherokee living today?

Internet Resources

• What is it?
• Link 1
• Time Line

• People's thoughts of the Trail of Tears
• President Andrew Jackson
• Major Ridge
• Justice John Marshall
• Chief John Ross

• Supreme Court's Decision
• Supreme Court's Decision Link 2

• Journey

Project Extensions

1. Make a map showing the "Trail of Tears." Calculate how many miles the Cherokee traveled.
2. Create a "Day in the Life" journal of a Cherokee on the Trail of Tears.
3. Imagine yourself a Cherokee living in Georgia in 1838 and illustrate a scene you might witness there.
4. Chart the multiple causes and effects of the removal of the Cherokees
5. Create a timeline sequencing the major events.
6. Imagine yourself a news correspondent sent to document the removal of the Cherokees. Write a news article.
7. Make a bibliography of books about the Trail of Tears.
8. Find five primary sources describing people's experiences during the walk to Oklahoma.

Maryann Lyons, Teacher, and Bret Gorden, AP student, collaborated to develop this web hunt.

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