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Native Nations and the Growing Nation is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on how Native nations experienced US expansion, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.His.4.3-5. It prints 8 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Native Nations and the Growing Nation

D2.His.4.3-5

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1.About how many Cherokee people died during removal?
  • A.About 400,000
  • B.About 4,000
  • C.About 40
2.What is a reservation?
  • A.Land set aside for a Native nation by treaty or law
  • B.A ticket for a seat on a train
  • C.A fort for the US Army
3.What was the Trail of Tears?
  • A.A trail for wagons going to Oregon
  • B.The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Indian Territory in 1838 and 1839
  • C.A road the Cherokee built to sell crops
4.How do many Native nations govern themselves today?
  • A.As nations with their own governments, laws and courts
  • B.As colonies ruled by Britain
  • C.They do not govern themselves at all
5.What did government boarding schools of the late 1800s try to make Native children do?
  • A.Speak only their own languages
  • B.Give up their own languages and ways of life
  • C.Learn their nation's history from their elders
6.What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 allow the president to do?
  • A.Give Native nations seats in Congress
  • B.Make treaties to move Native nations west of the Mississippi
  • C.Pay for new schools on Native lands in the East
7.What did Sequoyah create in 1821?
  • A.A writing system for the Cherokee language
  • B.A treaty giving away Cherokee land
  • C.The first railroad in Georgia
8.Sitting Bull was a Lakota leader. What did he resist?
  • A.Trading horses with other nations
  • B.Being forced onto reservations and losing the Black Hills
  • C.Building schools for Lakota children

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Answer key — Native Nations and the Growing Nation

Set 24. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.About 4,000
  2. 2.Land set aside for a Native nation by treaty or law
  3. 3.The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Indian Territory in 1838 and 1839
  4. 4.As nations with their own governments, laws and courts
  5. 5.Give up their own languages and ways of life
  6. 6.Make treaties to move Native nations west of the Mississippi
  7. 7.A writing system for the Cherokee language
  8. 8.Being forced onto reservations and losing the Black Hills

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.4.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.