Primary Sources: A Soldier's Account of the Cherokee Trail of Tears

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Read the passage Primary Sources: A Soldier's Account of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Then answer the questions below.
Read the passage Primary Sources: A Soldier's Account of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Then answer the questions below.
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According to the source, what was the primary purpose of the soldiers involved in the Cherokee Trail of Tears?

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What can be inferred from the soldier's account of the Cherokee Trail of Tears? Select two correct answers.

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Drag the statements to the correct box based on whether they show the experience of the soldier or the experience of the Cherokee along the Trail of Tears.

  • The only trouble that I had with anybody on the entire journey to the west was a brutal wagon driver named Ben McDonal.
  • I spent many pleasant hours with the young women and girls who sang their mountain songs for me to repay my kindness.
  • Many of these helpless people did not have blankets and many of them had been driven from home barefooted.
  • Men working in the fields were arrested and taken away. Women were dragged from their homes by soldiers whose language they could not understand.
  • Experiences of the soldier
  • Experiences of the Cherokee people