Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

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In one of the saddest episodes of history, men, women, and children were taken from their land, herded into makeshift forts with minimal facilities and food, then forced to march a thousand miles.

Free The Trail Of Tears For Kids Fun Unit Study Ideas And Lapbook

Between the years of 1684 and 1835, over 30 treaties chipped away at the Cherokee Indians’ original 135,000 square miles of land.

In the spring of 1837 and continuing through the fall of 1838, the Cherokee Indians were rounded up and corralled into stockades.

This began the Trail of Tears, a 1,200-mile journey to unfamiliar territory.

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The Trail of Tears for Kids

Taking our time to complete this lapbook about the Cherokee and The Trail of Tears was just the pizazz we needed to get back into our groove after moving.

We read about Sequoyah and his contribution to the Cherokee language and how his people viewed him. Like most of my minibooks, you can use the information we added or use your own research.

Cherokee culture continued to flourish with the invention of the Cherokee alphabet by Sequoyah in 1821

I try to provide some information always on the minibooks to help in case you have made more lesson plans than you have time at the moment. It happens to all of us so I like minibooks that are easy to put together.

The Trail of Tears for Kids Words to Know

Next, look at some of these words and events to know.

Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1830 the Congress of the United States passed the “Indian Removal Act. The white communities turned on their Indian neighbors and the U.S. Government decided it was time for the Cherokees to leave behind their farms, their land and their homes.
“Nunna daul Tsuny”.The route they traversed and the journey itself became known as “The Trail of Tears” or, as a direct translation from Cherokee, “The Trail Where They Cried”
President Andrew Jackson. Led the country from 1828 to 1837, the Trail of Tears (1837 to 1839) was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast He signs the Indian Removal Act which leads to Trail of Tears.
Davy Crockett. The famous Tennessee Congressman who protested the Indian Removal Act.
Gen. Winfield Scott. The general who led the forced Cherokee removal.
Oklahoma. The Indian Territory as it was called then that the Cherokees were forced to move to.

Then we did an easy Did You Know minibook. Tiny wanted to take a bunny trail off this unit study to talk about Davy Crockett because he was against the Indian Removal Act.

The Trail of Tears Free Minibooks

Normally, we would venture away from our topic, but this time we stuck to it because we had such a long stretch of time in finishing it.

This next minibook was one I wanted Tiny to do so he could think about the injustices in the world today and to read about the Bible’s view on it.

The terrible injustice done to all the civilized tribes at that time should touch any heart young and old and this gives your child a chance to voice his opinion on it.