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Revolutionary Kentucky
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Crossing the Cumberland Gap DBQ
Why did people risk crossing the Cumberland Gap?
Why did thousands of families risk the dangerous trip through the Cumberland Gap? Students read explorers' journals, land and salt records, and Cherokee and Shawnee voices to explain what pulled settlers into Kentucky.
Grade 8Kentucky HistoryGoogle Slides3 class periodsComing soon
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What's included
- Teacher presentation (15 slides) with speaker notes
- Full DBQ packet (29 pages) with documents, organizers, writing task, rubric and answer key
- Scaffolded version (5 pages)
The documents
- The Discovery of Cave Gap
- A Second Paradise
- The Value of Salt
- The Promise of Land
- A Dark and Bloody Ground
- The Wilderness Road and Growth
Good to know
- Class time
- 3 class periods
- Format
- Editable Google Slides
- Answer key
- Included
Standards: KAS Grade 8: 8.E.KE.2, 8.G.KGE.1, 8.G.MM.1, 8.H.KH.2, 8.I.Q, 8.I.UE, 8.I.CC
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