What You Will Learn
Goals
Here are the big ideas you will learn about in this lesson:
- Cherokee culture became more like American culture as Americans settled around Cherokee lands.
- The U.S. government forced the Cherokees to leave their land because many other groups of Americans wanted the gold found there.
Strategies
You will be using many reading and writing strategies to complete this lesson. The key strategies that you will focus on are:
- Categorizing basic facts and ideas
- Making inferences
- Determining important information
- Sequencing events
Vocabulary
Read these words and their definitions. When you see them in the lesson, you can click on them to read the definition again.