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FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

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“The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the US, to individual states, and to the Indians themselves ____ By opening the whole territory between Tennessee on the north and Louisiana on the south to the settlement of the whites it will incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier ____ Andrew JacksonBased on the excerpt above, which democratic rights and freedoms were being denied to American Indians?
A
privacy and free speech
B
property and sovereignty
C
free speech and assembly
D
religious and political freedom
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress on Indian Removal The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States, to individual States, and to the Indians themselves.

Detailed explanation-2: -More than 46, 000 Native Americans were forced-sometimes by the U.S. military-to abandon their homes and relocate to “Indian Territory” that eventually became the state of Oklahoma. More than 4, 000 died on the journey-of disease, starvation, and exposure to extreme weather.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jackson declared that removal would “incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier.” Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would “enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power."

Detailed explanation-4: -The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.

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