Indian removal act

1. page: short text for reading and learning new words;2. page: small quiz to check if the students understood the text / also some interesting history facts.In 1830 the Indian Removal Act was signed. In that Act, all the vast Natives’ lands east of the Mississippi river were to be exchanged for land to the west, called the “Indian colonization zone” (present-day Oklahoma). So the US goverment forced all the tribes from those lands to move, they mostly went on foot and tens of thousands men…

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The Trail of Tears was the deadly route used by Native Americans when forced off their ancestral lands and into Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Trail of Tears Indian Removal Act Minibook. This minibook is about the Indian Removal Act and how it affected not only the Cherokee, but other Indians.

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Trail of Tears The ”Trail of Tears” is the name given to the cruelly forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the…

This Native American printable booklet is ideal to support your teaching of indigenous Americans, in particular the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes. Being in a flap book format means that your students can take notes about each tribe as you conduct some whole-class teaching input about the Trail of Tears or when studying the impact of Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act.

Indian Policy- Indian policy was the act of removing hundreds of native american tribes from their native lands and relocating them. Their new territory was now in present day Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. This was also known as the Great American Desert because it was widely known as a dry and inferable, unfarmable land. Thomas Jefferson justified this movement by explaining that it was an area where native americans could live, undisturbed by the white men.

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the Trail of Tears, which refers to the forced relocation and movement of Native American families from the southeastern parts of the United States. About 17,000 Cherokees—along with approximately 2,000 black slaves owned by Cherokees—were removed from their homes. The number of people who died as a result of the Trail of Tears has been estimated at around 4,000.