USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What Central Idea is Andre Jackson hoping to convey in is his IRA 1830 speech?
A
That Indians are bad people an must be removed
B
That is beneficial to both the Indians and United States that the Indians be removed
C
That the Indian’s were savage idol worshipers and should be contained
D
That the Indians were a danger to the U.S. and needed to be centralized so they could be watched
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The goal was to remove all American Indians living in existing states and territories and send them to unsettled land in the west.

Detailed explanation-3: -"It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation.

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