<p> Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act Curriculum Pathways: QL #31 Student user name: kept57second</p><p>NAME: ______DATE: ______PERIOD: ______</p><p>Focus Question: Should Congress pass the Indian Removal Act of 1830?</p><p>SECTION I: Indian Removal Act of 1830 Movie Notes Directions: Watch the 3 movies and answer the following questions while you watch.</p><p>What is it? Why is it important?</p><p>Assimilation policy (Movie 1): Treaty of Holsten (Movie 1): Pressure by southern states for land (Movie 2):</p><p>Who (or what) are they? What did they do?</p><p>Cherokee Nation (Movie 2): Andrew Jackson (Movie 3): Northeastern political groups (Movie 3) :</p><p>Focus Question: Should Congress pass the Indian Removal Act of 1830? </p><p>What have you learned in the 3 Background Movies that will help you answer the focus question?</p><p>SECTION II: Document Analysis Directions: Watch the video and learn how to analyze a document. Read each document. For each document, pick a passage or excerpt that will help you to answer the focus questions (Should Congress pass the Indian Removal Act of 1830? ).</p><p>Document 1 Title and Date:</p><p>Excerpt: What information from this excerpt helps you to answer the focus question?</p><p>Document 2 Title and Date:</p><p>Excerpt:</p><p>What information from this excerpt helps you to answer the focus question?</p><p>Document 3 Title and Date: </p><p>Excerpt:</p><p>What information from this excerpt helps you to answer the focus question?</p><p>Document 4 Title:</p><p>Excerpt:</p><p>What information from this excerpt helps you to answer the focus question?</p><p>Document 5 Title:</p><p>Excerpt:</p><p>What information from this excerpt helps you to answer the focus question?</p><p>SECTION III: Answering the Focus Question</p><p>You are a member of the U.S. Senate in 1830. It is partially your responsibility to determine if the Indian Removal Act will pass. Using specific information that you found watching the videos and in your analysis of the documents, answer the focus question: Should Congress pass the Indian Removal Act of 1830? Write a minimum of one paragraph (5 sentences) to answer this question. Use the information you researched to support your thesis (argument).</p>