1. Debating Removal Kathryn H. Braund

2. Please read:  1. William Penn essay (105)  2. Catherine Beecher Circular (111)  3. Lewis Cass (115)  4. John Ross Letter  5. Elias Boudinot Letter (161)

3. How can these documents  Be used to teach critical thinking skills?  Be used to convey content and context?  Be employed within the PIH framework?

4. 4 Removal-Discussion Questions  Were the assumptions about Indians valid?  Was removal “ethnic cleansing”?  Was it constitutional?  Was it in the best American tradition?  What were the other options?

5. 5 Removal-Discussion Questions  Indians divided over the proper course. Put yourself in their shoes. What do you believe was the best option for Indians in the 1830s?

6. 6 Removal-Discussion Questions  Wallace, The Long, Bitter Trail: “The U.S. acquired millions of acres of fertile Southern land, which it sold at little or no profit to speculators and settlers, thereby in effect subsidizing the expansion of the cotton industry and the slave system along with it.” Do you agree?