Trail of Tears

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A great website with links to research and an interactive map: http://www.nps.gov/trte/

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Trail of Tears Web Guide
Using this student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, students visit two Web sites in order to answer questions about Cherokee history and the Trail of Tears. Click "Display Full Record" and see the Relation field for a link to the lesson this reproducible supports.

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Conflict: Trail of Tears
Discovery Education streaming Video*

A 14 minute video for Grades 6 - 12

President Andrew Jackson forced the Cherokee Nation to make a dangerous migration, now known as the Trail of Tears, when it refused to give up its ancestral land to American settlers. Cherokee efforts through the American legal system to reverse this decision failed when President Jackson ignored and defied the Supreme Court.

Arizona Academic Standard Connection See connection 8

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Arizona State Academic Standards Connection

Grade 5   • Social Studies - Strand 1 – American History   - Concept 5: Western Expansion   o PO 1 - Describe the following events of 19th century presidencies of:   a. Thomas Jefferson – Louisiana Purchase; explorations of Lewis and Clark b. James Madison – War of 1812 c. James Monroe – The Monroe Doctrine d. Andrew Jackson – Nationalism and Sectionalism; Trail of Tears e. James Polk – Mexican-American War;  discovery of gold in California

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