BrainPOP Jr. Video: Cherokee Exit Ticket

1. Which is used to play the Cherokee game of stickball?

• A. a stick
• B. a baseball bat
• C. a stick with a net

2. Who made it possible for the Cherokee to read and write in their language?

• A. Sequoyah
• B. Sitting Bull
• C. Pocahontas

3. Today the Cherokee is divided into seven CLANS, such as the Deer Clan, Bird Clan, and Wolf Clan. What is a CLAN?

• A. A house that is sunken into the ground.
• B. A special ceremony where people pray.
• C. A close group of people or family.

4. Which sentence is true?

• A. The Cherokee people used to live in teepees.
• B. The Cherokee are a native people of the North.
• C. The Cherokee people have their own language.

5. Which best describes a Cherokee Stomp Dance?

• A. People come together to pray and dance.
• B. People harvest crops like squash and corn.
• C. People trade goods with new settlers.

6. What was the name of the route that Native Americans took when they were forced to leave their land?

• A. The Terrible Trail
• B. The Trail of Tears
• C. The Trail of Sadness

7. True or False? Cherokee traditions include: weaving baskets, making pottery, and creating masks and rattles out of gourds.

• True
• False

8. True or False? The Cherokee were NOT farming people.

• True
• False

9. True or False? The Cherokee began trading with the settlers, and the settlers brought diseases which made some of the Cherokee sick, so many of them died.

• True
• False

10. Which U.S. President signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830?

• A. President George Washington
• B. President Andrew Jackson
• C. President Abraham Lincoln