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    The document summarizes the mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government in the 19th century. It details how several tribes were forced off their lands east of the Mississippi River during the 1830s in an event known as the Trail of Tears, in which thousands died as they were marched to Oklahoma. It also discusses unfair treaties signed under duress that ceded tribal lands, and later violent conflicts like the Sand Creek Massacre and Wounded Knee that displaced or killed Native Americans from lands out west. The purpose of the treaties was ultimately to remove Native Americans from their ancestral homelands to make room for settlers.

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    The document summarizes the mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government in the 19th century. It details how several tribes were forced off their lands east of the Mississippi River during the 1830s in an event known as the Trail of Tears, in which thousands died as they were marched to Oklahoma. It also discusses unfair treaties signed under duress that ceded tribal lands, and later violent conflicts like the Sand Creek Massacre and Wounded Knee that displaced or killed Native Americans from lands out west. The purpose of the treaties was ultimately to remove Native Americans from their ancestral homelands to make room for settlers.

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    The document summarizes the mistreatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government in the 19th century. It details how several tribes were forced off their lands east of the Mississippi River during the 1830s in an event known as the Trail of Tears, in which thousands died as they were marched to Oklahoma. It also discusses unfair treaties signed under duress that ceded tribal lands, and later violent conflicts like the Sand Creek Massacre and Wounded Knee that displaced or killed Native Americans from lands out west. The purpose of the treaties was ultimately to remove Native Americans from their ancestral homelands to make room for settlers.

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    Broken Promises: History Is Often The Story of The Never-Ending Struggle For C

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    Broken Promises Name: ______________________________________

    Answer the following questions based on the


    Cross-Curricular Focus: History/Social Sciences reading passage.

    History is often the story of the never-ending struggle for control over land.
    People have traveled great distances for land. They have endured pain and 1) What was the Trail of Tears? 2
    suffering for the chance to get land. They have fought in bloody battles and wars
    to claim their own little corner of Earth. _____ During the l830s, the U.S. government
    Stories of explorers claiming new lands for their countries have one stunning forced the Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole
    thing in common. In culture after culture, native peoples have been overlooked and other tribes off their land on the east side of the
    and abused. Indigenous people have often lived in a country for thousands of Mississippi River. They were marched around 1,200
    years before it was “discovered.” In Africa, it was the native African tribes who miles to eastern Oklahoma, then known as Indian
    were abused. In Australia it was the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. In Territory. Thousands died from disease and
    the Americas, it was the Native Americans, who were called “Indians” by exposure on the way. This was such a devastating
    mistake. event to the Native Americans that it became known
    The U.S. government signed many peace treaties with Native Americans as the Trail of Tears.
    when the nation was young. A peace treaty is a document in which both sides ________________________________
    agree on the terms for peace. Unfortunately, these treaties were often unfair to
    _____________________________________
    Native Americans. Many natives did not understand English well. They did not
    understand the treaty. Some native leaders signed away their rights to land in _____________________________________
    order to get personal wealth. They neglected the needs of their people. The
    ultimate purpose of the treaties was to push Native Americans off their lands. 2) Name some reasons that the Native
    These were the lands where their people had lived long before the arrival of Americans agreed to treaties that were
    European explorers. unfair to them. 2
    During the l830s, the U.S. government forced the Choctaw, Cherokee,
    Creek, Seminole and other tribes off their land on the east side of the Mississippi ___ Some native leaders signed away their rights
    River. They were marched around 1,200 miles to eastern Oklahoma, then known to land in order to get personal wealth.
    as Indian Territory. Thousands died from disease and exposure on the way. ______________________`____________
    This was such a devastating event to the Native Americans that it became
    known as the Trail of Tears. _____________________________________
    Once that had been accomplished, settlers decided they should be able to
    have any land on the west side of the Mississippi River, too. Several hundred 3) Members of which tribe were killed by
    Cheyenne were killed in the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864. In 1890, Lakota soldiers at Wounded Knee? 1 _,
    people were killed by soldiers at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Sadly, they
    Lakota people were killed by soldiers at
    were killed even though they had already surrendered.
    Many Americans are shocked and ashamed of the way native peoples were Wounded Knee
    treated. We cannot change what has been. However, we can learn from our past ______________________________
    and never treat people this way again.
    4) What is a peace treaty? 2
    _ A peace treaty is a document in which both sides agree on the terms for
    peace.____________________

    _____________________________________

    5) What is the main purpose of this reading passage?


    2
    The main purpose reading this passage is that we know how people
    Treated the tribe

    6)Write the synonyms of 3


    Overlooked, exposure, indigenous
    Miss, ,native
    7) List the native peoples and their countries mentioned in the passage.
    3
    Native americans – north America
    Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole- the Mississippi east side
    Cheyenne- west side Mississippi

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