1. Trail of Tears

2. Fill out your KWL chart What do you know about the Trail of Tears?
What do you want to learn?

4. The Trail of Tears was a series of forced removals of Native American nations from their ancestral homelands in the Southeastern United States to an area west of the Mississippi River that had been designated as Native Territory.
The forced relocations were carried out by various government authorities following the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
The relocated people suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route, and more than four thousand died before reaching their various destinations.

5. The removal included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations. The phrase "Trail of Tears" originated from a description of the removal of the Cherokee Nation in 1838.
Between 1830 and 1850, the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee people this including Native Americans, and the African freedmen and slaves, who lived among them were forcibly removed from their traditional lands in the Southeastern United States, and relocated farther west.
Those relocated were forced to march to their destinations by state and local militias.

7. This picture, The Trail of Tears, was painted by Robert Lindneux in It commemorates the suffering of the Cherokee people under forced removal. If any depictions of the "Trail of Tears" were created at the time of the march, they have not survived.

9. Trail of Tears Simulation
Rules:
No talking.
No motioning/signaling/signing.
No touching another person.
If you “die” head directly to the grim reaper (me). No talking while dead (because, obviously)

10. Finish your KWL chart and reflection. Turn it in.
What did you learn? What is your opinion on this matter?

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