read this excerpt from president Andrew Jackson message to congress on Indian removal:


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?


A. It is an obvious choice for american Indian to want to be removed.


B. American Indian should reject the plan because of its consequences for them.


C. white settlers are dangerous for american Indian, so the two should be separated.


D. it is easier for white settlers to live without american Indians nearby.

Respuesta :

The point being made in the passage is that:

D. it is easier for white settlers to live without american Indians nearby.

Explanation:

Andrew Jackson was arguing for the removal of American natives from their ancestral lands in favor of westward expansion of the white population of the USA.

He argued for this by pitting the Natives as savages who roam the lands and poach it compared to the civilized white people who will not be able to live peacefully as long as the 'few thousand' of Natives roam in the land they would inhabit.

He makes it seem like a numbers game by pitting a few thousand against the population of 12 million Americans

Answer:the answer is D

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