   How to Use the Readings   Inquiry Question  Historical
Context   Reading 2 Reading 3    Table of  Determining the Facts
Reading 1: The Railroad Helps Build a Town: Chattanooga,
Tennessee  Among the Creek Indians, who for centuries controlled
the area where today Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama come
together, the word "Chado-na-ugsa" meant "rock that comes to a
point." The name referred specifically to what is now called
Lookout Mountain, a peak from which one can see for hundreds of
miles. Chado-na-ugsa was a landmark well known to generations of
Creek and Cherokee, who fished and traveled by the Tennessee
River and who hunted and trapped in the surrounding mountains.
In the early 19th century, Daniel Ross, a Cherokee Indian of
mixed white and Indian ancestry, founded a trading post at the
site of present-day Chattanooga. His son John, who became Chief
of the Cherokee Nation, expanded the business. After American
Indians were forced west on the infamous Trail of Tears, whites
renamed "Ross’s Landing" Cha