TRAIL+OF+TEARS+WEBQUEST


 * Trail of Tears WebQuest **
 * Find the Answers at:** [|John Quincy Adams]
 * 1) Who was elected President in 1824?
 * 2) What position did he have prior to running for the Presidency?
 * 3) How was he elected? Why?
 * Find the Answers at:** [|Andrew Jackson]
 * 1) Who was elected President in 1828?
 * 2) Who did he feel he represented?
 * 3) In his first annual message, what did he recommend eliminating? Why?
 * 4) What two political parties emerged during the campaign?
 * Find the Answers at**: Jeffersonian Democracy
 * 1) Looking at the charts, what can be said about voter turnout between the 1824 and 1828 elections?
 * 2) Looking at Massachusetts example, what changed in many states 1821 – 1827?
 * 3) What were the new voting requirements?
 * Find the Answers at:** [|Indian Removal]
 * 1) In the view of the settlers, what were the Indian nations doing?
 * 2) Nine of eleven treaties called for the movement of Native American tribes to the ?
 * 3) The 1823 ruling of the Supreme Court said what for the relationship between Native Americans and land?
 * 4) Early attempts at Native American resistance for the most part were _?
 * 5) What did the Indian Removal Act permit the President to do?
 * Find the Answers at:** [|The West]
 * 1) Who is Worcester representing or suing on behalf of?
 * 2) 2. What was the ruling in the case?
 * Find the Answer at:** [|The Trail of Tears-Historical Documents]
 * 1) How many died?
 * Find the Answers at:** []
 * 1) What tribe is being moved? How many groups were they originally broken into?
 * 2) What three things led to an unpleasant experience?
 * 3) By November how many groups had made the journey? How far had they traveled?
 * Find the Answers at:** [|Trail of Tears]
 * 1) What was Andrew Jackson’s response to //Worcester v. Georgia//?
 * 2) What five tribes of Southeastern Native Americans’ lands were heavily wanted by speculators for their agricultural areas?
 * 3) What made the Northeastern tribes different from the Southeastern tribes?

Write a poem or short story on what the Native Americans faced during the Trail of Tears. Make sure to include imagery that pertains to why it was referenced (called) the Trail of Tears. Your poem must be at least three stanzas in length and must be on a separate sheet of paper.
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