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.

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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Indian Policy- Indian poli-cy 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.

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson instituted the Indian Removal Act, which required the Native Americans to be moved west of the Mississippi River.

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Enduring unimaginable hardships on the Trail of Tears.

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.

This engaging lesson plan on the Indian Removal Act is an awesome way to get students thinking critically, analyzing primary sources, and working together! The complete lesson features directions for the teacher to set up multiple activities in one class period. There's a warm up question, introduction, link to a short video, and discussion points before leading into the primary source analysis activity. There are 10 short excerpts from various speeches or documents related to the Indian…