Question

Statement to Congress by President Jackson in 1830: The ...Speedy removal [of the Indians]...Will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of land now occupied by a few savage hunters...What good man would [not] prefer a country...Filled with all the blessing of liberty, civilization, and religion? Based on the statement above, which conclusion can be made about President Jackson's view of lands occupied by Indians? *

Answer 1

From the statement, it can be argued that Andrew Jackson saw Native Americans as inferior people because they have a different culture.

That is an ethnocentric view that Andrew Jackson used to justify the removal of the Native Americans from their home lands.

The problem with that view is that no culture is inherently superior to others. One cannot argue, in an objective way, that the culture of Americans of European Descent of the early 18 century was superior to the culture of the Native Americans from the same period.

Besides, such a view prevents cultural exchange, cooperation, and peaceful coexistance, which should be goals in a democracy like the United States, whose constitution holds that all men are equal before the law.