Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.5b
The Standard
- SS24.US1.5
- Explain causes, courses, and consequences of United States’ expansionism and the rise of Manifest Destiny ideology prior to 1848.
Summarize the effects of the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears on Native Americans, and describe the efforts by different nations to oppose removal.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how federal removal policy pushed Native nations from their homelands and caused deaths and displacement. They describe how different nations opposed removal through petitions, court cases, and armed resistance.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use a map to locate homelands and removal routes, then name two harms to Native communities. They can explain how Cherokee leaders challenged removal in court and Seminole groups resisted with arms.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Native nations accepted removal without protest or that a court victory stopped it. They may also think relocation was voluntary or that losing land was its only cost.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: Name two effects of removal on Native communities. How did Cherokee leaders and Seminole groups each oppose removal?
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a map of Southeastern homelands and removal routes; have them mark Cherokee and Choctaw starting points, destinations, and one effect of displacement.
Read excerpts from a Cherokee petition and an account of Seminole resistance; ask, 'How did each nation oppose removal?'
Give pairs cards describing a Cherokee petition, a court ruling, Seminole fighting, and deaths on removal routes; sort them by resistance or consequence.
Compare an 1830s removal map with current Cherokee Nation and Seminole Tribe maps to see where their governments and communities are today.
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