Workbook chapter 5

Native Americans

 

Task 1

Discuss in pairs. Are these statements true or false?

a) Right after Columbus had discovered America Europeans started to come to the new continent in large numbers.

b) The Native Americans lived close to nature.

c) The Indians sold land to the Europeans as they came there.

d) The immigrants settled on the West Coast first.

e) Most of the Cherokees had to walk as they were pushed westwards.


Task 2



Draw the route the Indians moved.


             

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Task 4

Make sentences out of these words:

1. It, Columbus, to come, to, after, discovered, America, started, Europeans.

2. Nature, the Natives, close, lived, to.

3. Had, no, the right, person, to own, privately, land.

4. The natives, a law, passed, away, to push, the Government.

 

Task 5

What do you think could be the reasons for conflicts between the immigrants and the Native Americans?

 

Task 6

Check in an encyclopaedia or on Internet who Columbus was.

Where did he come from? What was his target? Why?

Handy addresses: www.yahoo.com, www.google.com.

Task 7

Find more information on the Indian Removal Act. Use the same tools as in task 6.