The Trail of Tears Abigail Curtiss Content Area

The Trail of Tears Abigail Curtiss

Content Area: Social Studies Grade Level: 1 st Grade Summary: The purpose of this instructional Power. Point is to have the students understand what took place during the Trail of Tears and what happened during the journey. Learning Objective: The student is given facts about the Trail of Tears, and then has to recall what they just read answer questions about certain facts. This will help the student not only remember facts about the Trail of Tears, but will also help them to remember things better. TN State Standard- 1. 7 Interpret legends, stories, and songs that contribute to the development of cultures in Tennessee, including Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Creek tribes. ISTE Standard- 6. Technology operations and concepts Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations. a. Understand use technology systems

What is the Trail of Tears? ! The “Trail of Tears” is specifically about the removal of the Cherokees in the first half of the 19 th century, when about 16, 000 Cherokees were forcibly relocated from their ancestral lands in Georgia to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) west of the Mississippi. It is estimated that of the 16, 000 Cherokee who were removed, about 4, 000 perished. The Indians walked over 1, 200 miles to get to their new territory, and went through 9 different states.

Why did they have to leave? White Americans, mainly the ones who lived on the western frontier, feared and resented the Native Americans they came in contact with: To them American Indians seemed like alien people who took up the land that the white Americans wanted and thought they deserved. President George Washington, and other officials during his time, thought that the best way to fix this problem was to make the Native Americans “civilized”. They wanted to make the Native Americans act and do things the was they do, and five tribes decided to do so, they were called the “Five Civilized Tribes. ”

What did it look like? And what did the Indians look like? Here are some pictures of what the Indians looked like, and how they traveled. https: //cira 1838. wordpress. com/cherokee-indian-removal-act-of-1838/ https: //sites. google. com/site/pesickaenglish 8 students/welco me/trail-of-tears

Where Did it Start, and Where Did it End? Georgia, Oklahoma Tennessee, Kentucky Arkansas, Georgia Oklahoma, Missouri

Correct! They left their native lands in Georgia, and were relocated to Oklahoma. http: //indiancountrytodaymedianetwork. com/201 5/03/06/trail-tears-middle-school-studentsperspective-159140

How Many States Did They Go Through? 7 1 9 6

Correct! They went through 9 states! http: //freepages. genealogy. rootsweb. a ncestry. com/~tqpeiffer/Documents/An cestral%20 Migration%20 Archives/Mig ration%20 Photo%20 Galleries/(5)%20 SOUTHEASTERN%20 GULF%20 PLA INS/TRAIL%20 OF%20 TEARS/TRAIL %20 OF%20 TEARS. html

How Many People Made it to Oklahoma? 4, 000 20, 000 15, 000 12, 000

Correct! 12, 000 http: //www. pbs. org/wgbh/aia/part 4/4 h 1567. html

Summary In this lesson, the student will have learned what the Trail of Tears was, where it began and ended, how many states they traveled through, and how many Indians survived the journey. They will also learn why the Native Americans had to leave their home land.

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