Social Studies Study Guide

Parents,

Please see Study Guide Items below.  Our test is on Tuesday, December 17th.  Thanks!

Study Guide for Social Studies Native Georgians Test

Test is Tuesday, Dec. 17^th

-More and more settlers came to Georgia.  The effect this had on the Creek and Cherokee was they had to give up more land.

-The Trail of Tears was a long, hard 800-mile journey that the Cherokees took from Georgia to Oklahoma.

-One of the ways the Cherokee did NOT travel along the Trail of Tears was on trains.

-After the Trail of Tears and today most Cherokee and Creek live in Oklahoma.

-The Cherokee left their homes and moved to Indian Territory because settlers came and forced them out.

-The Cherokee newspaper, the “Cherokee Phoenix” is important because it printed news about the Cherokee government.

-After white settlers came to Georgia, the Cherokee and Creek began to take on some of the settler’s ways.  Both and Cherokee and Creek began to dress like settlers.

-The Creek used mud, twigs, and tree branches to build their homes.

 

-The Cherokee used many things from nature.  To help keep people from getting sick and for healing the Cherokee used different plant parts.

-Sequoyah was willing to spend many years working on his alphabet.  This is an example of the character trait of patience.

-The difference between Creek summer homes and winter homes were that there were no walls.

-When Sequoyah let people pay him later for goods from his trading post, he showed compassion.

-Sequoyah saw that Georgia settlers could read and write in English.  He wanted the Cherokee to learn how to read and write in Cherokee.

-The two Georgia heroes that had trading posts were Mary Musgrove and Sequoyah.

-Sequoyah showed good character traits by showing patience and compassion.