Alabama Social Studies SS24.AS.6

SS24.AS.6 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.AS.6a

  Compare and contrast the major Native American tribes in Alabama of the colonial period and nineteenth century.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students locate Cherokee communities in northeastern Alabama, Chickasaw communities in the northwest, Choctaw communities in the southwest, and Creek communities across central and eastern Alabama. They compare where these peoples lived and how their experiences changed from the colonial period through the 1800s.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

A student can label each group's approximate region on a map without drawing fixed borders. They can explain that Creek and Cherokee peoples lived in different parts of Alabama, but both faced forced removal in the 1830s.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may switch the Cherokee and Chickasaw regions. They may think tribal lands had fixed borders or that removal ended Native presence in Alabama.

04

How to Assess It

Give students a blank Alabama map. Ask them to label the four groups' approximate locations around 1800, then write one difference in location and one experience two groups shared in the 1830s.

1. 01

   Give pairs an Alabama outline map and four name cards to place near the Tennessee, Tombigbee, Coosa, and Tallapoosa rivers.

2. 02

   Show an 1800 map and ask: How did the locations of Creek and Cherokee communities differ, and what happened to both in the 1830s?

3. 03

   Play a map relay: call out a group, and students point to its approximate region on their own Alabama maps.

4. 04

   Find Wetumpka on a current Alabama map, then compare its location with Creek territory on a map from around 1800.

• SS24.AS.7

  Outline the chronology of Alabama’s colonial history, identifying the shifting claims by imperial powers and Indigenous peoples engaged in colonial-era conflict...

• SS24.4.1a

  Map the locations of significant European settlements and major Indigenous nations in North America and Alabama.

• SS24.AS.5

  Describe the cultures, economies, and governments of the first Indigenous peoples to inhabit Alabama.