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In this assignment, students will watch the documentary, "We Shall Remain:  The Trail of Tears," and then answer questions about the film

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In this assignment, students will watch the documentary, "We Shall Remain:  The Trail of Tears," and then answer questions about the film.

You will find the film here:

We Shall Remain: The Trail of Tears

Links to an external site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdlx2bT7c6I

As you watch, answer the following questions. 

Open a Word or PDF Document and copy and paste the following questions in it.  Type your answers below the question.

 

1.   Ridge had been born in ___________ into a Cherokee Nation that stretched through the Southern Appalachians.

2.   The Cherokee Nation was still on its knees in 1805. Its population had dwindled to ________________ and it had lost more than half its land.

3.   _________ ________, the future Cherokee Chief grew up at the crossroads of an enemy world.

4.   John Ross was Cherokee because of his ________________ blood.

5.   Cherokee land, all of it, was ____________ in common by the tribe.

 6.   Major __________’s hope for the future was a group of educated young men.

 7.  John Ridge grew into manhood among white _________________ educators.

 8.   While John Ridges was away in Connecticut, John __________ was a young man on the rise.

 

9.   The _____________ Cherokees found themselves surrounded on every side by American settlers.

 10.   “_________________” was beginning to draw hard class distinctions that had never existed in traditional                    Cherokee society.

 11.  __________________ was devoted to enabling the Cherokee people to have at their command an essential                   power, the ability to write in the Cherokee language.

 12.   Among the traditional full blood Cherokee – who made up the majority of the tribe- John Ross gained a                        reputation for ________________.

 13.   In his first address to Congress, President ____________________ announced his intention to rid the East of              Indian Tribes once and for all.

 14.   White settlers bought up __________________ tickets and a chance at Cherokee land.

 15.   _____________ Law sent a clear signal, any Cherokee who made a deal to sell land to the United States without          consent of the entire tribe faced dire consequences.

 16.   The Cherokee Nation and their supporters filed more than a dozen separate suits in federal court; two made it             all the way to the ______________ Court of the United States.

 17.   Samuel ____________________ was a missionary who lived in the Cherokee Nation.

 18.   Once Jackson openly sided with ______________________ every day brought fresh stories of abused to                      Cherokees.

 

19.   The United States and Georgia got the scent of blood and dug deep at the rift that had opened between Chief               ___________ and the ______________.

 

20.   There was no reconciling after _________

 21.   Soon after the Treaty of New Echota was ratified in the U.S. Senate, by a margin of just __________ vote, Major            Ridge and his son John moved to the land west of the Mississippi.

 22.   Deadline for removal was ____________________.

 23.   More than ______________ captive Cherokees waited in the fetid stockades.

 24.   It was early December before the final group began the ___________ mile trip.

 25.   By _____________ after a quarter century at removal from the U.S., Ross had managed to restor the heart of his          nation.

 26.   John Ross had been chief nearly ___________ years when after the Civil War the United States demanded the            tribe cede part of its western land.