Trail of Tears WebQuest- Write your answers in complete sentences on loose leaf paper. This is due Monday 5/4.
Click here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/johnquincyadams
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Who was elected President in 1824?
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What position did he have prior to running for the Presidency?
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How was he elected? Why?
Click her: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/andrewjackson
4. Who was elected President in 1828?
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Who did he feel he represented?
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In his first annual message, what did he recommend eliminating? Why?
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What two political parties emerged during the campaign?
Click here: http://westlake.k12.oh.us/WhsTeachers/CurtisR/APUSHMain/unit3/Jacksonian%20democracy.pdf
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Looking at the charts, what can be said about voter turnout between the 1824 and 1828 elections?
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Looking at Massachusetts’ example, what changed in many states 1821 – 1827?
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What were the new voting requirements?
Click here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html
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In the view of the settlers, what were the Indian nations doing?
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Nine of eleven treaties called for the movement of Native American tribes to the ____?
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The 1823 ruling of the Supreme Court said what for the relationship between Native Americans and land?
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Early attempts at Native American resistance for the most part were _____?
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What did the Indian Removal Act permit the President to do?
Click here: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/two/worcestr.htm
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Who is Worcester representing or suing on behalf of?
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What was the ruling in the case?
Click here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1567.html
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How many died?
Click here: http://www.nps.gov/trte/historyculture/stories.htm
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What tribe is being moved? How many groups were they originally broken into?
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What three things led to an unpleasant experience?
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By November how many groups had made the journey? How far had they traveled?
Click here: http://www.history.com/topics/trail-of-tears
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What was Andrew Jackson’s response to Worcester v. Georgia?
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What five tribes of Southeastern Native Americans’ lands were heavily wanted by speculators for their agricultural areas?
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What made the Northeastern tribes different from the Southeastern tribes?
Extension Activity:
Write a letter to Congress asking them to do something for the ancestors of the Five Civilized Tribes as a reparation (payment) for the Indian Removal Act.
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