Module 7 question 7 Name four historical lenses through which you could analyze the events of the Cherokee Removal. Specify one aspect of this event for each lens that you cite. PDF

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Name four historical lenses through which you could analyze the events of the Cherokee Removal. Specify one aspect of this event for each lens that you cite....

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Module 7 Short Responses – Question 7 Name four historical lenses through which you could analyze the events of the Cherokee Removal. Specify one aspect of this event for each lens that you cite.

1. Military lens: The Cherokees had two parties , The National Party and the Treaty party. The National party did not want to move to the west but the Treat party understood they could not avoid it. The Treaty party signed the Treat of Echota secretly. The Natives would move west of the Mississippi River in exchange for land and money by signing the treaty. The Cherokee's were give tow years to move to the west fatter that they were moved by force. 2. Political lens: The Treaty of Echota which the Treaty party signed pressure the Indians by the federal government under President Jackson and President Van Buren. This treaty only represented a portion of the Cherokee tribe 3, Economic Lens: The white settlers wanted the land in which the Cherokee had settled upon as it was rich with natural resources. 4. Social Lens: The Cherokee tribe had dividend themselves into tow parties. Neither part want to leave their land however , the Treaty Party understood they would be forced to do so by the government....