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Trail of Tears, Part 1

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Trail of Tears, Part 1
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	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 6 to 8
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	5.75

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	challenging words:		resolute, further, agreement, arrival, southeastern, constitution, conflict, government, trade, series, goods, population, grounds, tribe, explorer, peace
	content words:		United States, De Soto, Some Cherokee, King George II, Seven Years War, King George, Indian War, Mississippi River, Tennessee River, Cherokee Nation

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Trail of Tears, Part 1 By Joyce Furstenau

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¹     The Cherokee people once freely roamed more than 44,000 square miles of what is now the southeastern United States. The first Cherokee contact with whites came in 1540. A Spanish explorer named Hernando de Soto came through their land in search of gold. De Soto did not find what he was looking for. He took little more than food from the Cherokees. They took little notice of the white man then. The Cherokee kept their distance from strangers and carried on as they always had for centuries.
 
²     During the 1600's, British colonists arrived. They did not pass through as de Soto did. They cleared the land and built towns. Soon they were claiming more and more land. The colonists did not realize they were on Cherokee land. They did not realize the Cherokees had claimed the land for centuries before their arrival.
 
³     The colonists kept coming. They had very different ways. They cleared Cherokee hunting grounds. They did not use bows and arrows. They used guns. They brought horses. They taught the Cherokees how to ride and use their guns. The coming of white men changed the Cherokee way of life.

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