Priscilla and the Hollyhocks Story Detectives Answers  Close Window
  
1. c- 4 million of the 12 million people living in slave states were slaves: one-third of the population.
2. Minnesota.
3.Alter painted in acrylic.
4. The author trace her Cherokee ancestors back to Elizabeth Coody, a full blood Cherokee of the Long Hair Clan born around 1700.
5. b-1865
6. Africa.
7. The United States Congress voted the Indian Removal Act in 1830 to move many Native American tribes from their homelands to less-inhabited parts of the Untied States. The Cherokees were sent to Indian Territory, now present-day Oklahoma.
8. Violet, Daffodil, Zinnia, Hollyhock.
9. Plantation.
10. True. The picture of the street scene that includes Auction & Negro Sales is modeled after a historical photograph, as is the Silkwood home portrayed at the end of the book.
Bonus: Of the more than sixteen thousand Cherokees forced to move on the Trail of Tears, more than four thousand (25%) died from malnutrition, hypothermia, and disease.

Illustration by Anna Alter
from Priscilla and the Hollyhocks
(Charlesbridge, 2008)
used by permission