Question

Read the following paraphrase of a speech by Andrew Jackson in 1830:

"Can it be that the savage has a stronger attachment to his home the settled, civilized Christian? It is worse for him to leave the graves of his father than it is to our brothers and children? The policy of the General Government toward the red man is not only liberal, but generous. He will not submit to the laws of the states and mingle with us. To save him from annihilation, the General Government kindly offers him a new home.

Which action by the U.S. government did this speech justify?
A. Forced assimilation
B. Forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia
C. Settlers breaking treaties in the Indian Territory
D. Settlers paying the Native Americans for land rights

Answer 1

I believe the answer is B. The forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia because he thought that if he moved them away from Europe he would be doing them a favor.

Answer 2

B. Forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia

Step-by-step explanation:

This paraphrased excerpt is from President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress on The Indian Removal Act that the Congress had approved.

Under this Act, Jackson was authorized to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes, consisting mainly of the Cherokee, in exchange for their ancestral homelands located in Georgia. In reality, Jackson enforced this act not as a form of negotiation with the tribes, but as a violent removal of the tribes, especially of the Cherokee that refused to leave from Georgia to Western Lands.

In the speech, the President is referring to that act and the forced removal of the Cherokee from Georgia and uses those word in order to justify the government's actions. Jackson sees the government's policies as liberal, generous and kind because the removal was in the Indians' best interests: it would save them from extinction and it would free them from the power of the States.