JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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Can it be cruel in this government ____ to purchase his [Indian] lands, give him a new and extensive territory, and support him a year in his new abode? How many of our own people would gladly embrace the opportunity of removing to the west on such conditions! What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12, 000, 000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion? ____ Andrew Jackson, (1830)Based on this excerpt, why did Jackson support the Indian Removal Act? Select all that apply.
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The Supreme Court declared the Indian Removal Act constitutional, so Jackson was obligated to uphold it.
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Any rational person would prefer a developed, industrialized society to relatively empty forests or people living off the land.
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Native Americans would be better off leaving because Congress would pay to support them for one year
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Native Americans were so successful at becoming “civilized” they were starting to take away opportunities from white Americans
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Introduction. The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant 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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