Question

Answer the following questions based on the reading passage.

1. What was the Trail of Tears?

2. Name one reason that the Native Americans agreed to treaties that were unfair to them.

3. Members of which tribe were killed by soldiers at Wounded Knee?

4. What is a peace treaty?

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

6. Choose the same meaning word from the passage.

(a) agreements between two states

(b) Having no protection​

Answer 1

Answer:

• (Ans 1:) In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson,s Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up it's land east of the Mississippi river and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears", because of its devastating effects. ( Ans 2:) Many of the Native leaders who signed these treaties could not read what they were signing, and even if they could they did not recognize the documents as being the official record of what was agreed on. (Ans 3:) On december 29, 1890 in the final chapter of Americans long Indian wars, the U.S cavalry kills 146 Sioux at wounded knee on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota. (Ans 4:) A peace treaty is an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or government, which formally ends a state of war between the parties. (Ans 5:) If a reading passage is enjoyable to read, tells a personal story, or uses a story to teach a lesson, the author,s purpose is to entertain. If a reading passage provides facts about a particular subject or tells readers how to do something, the author,s purpose is to explain or inform.