In a one paragraph response create an evidence based claim explaining which side you agree with in regards to the Indian Removal Act. Make sure to use evidence from the document(s) to support your answer.
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Document A

Andrew Jackson’s Message to Congress (1830) - December 6th 1830

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 conclusion….The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States… It will place a dense and civilized population in large tracts of country now occupied by a few savage hunters….By opening the whole territory between Tennessee on the north and Louisiana on the south to the settlement of the whites it will strengthen the southwestern frontier... It will relieve the whole State of Mississippi and the western part of Alabama of Indian occupancy, and enable those States to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and powerWhat 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?

Document B

Excerpt from the closing paragraphs of an address made by a council of Cherokee people to the United States in July 1830.

We are aware, that some persons suppose it will be for our advantage to remove beyond the Mississippi... there is probably not an adult person in the Cherokee nation, who would think it best to remove…

We wish to remain on the land of our fathers...we see nothing but ruin before us. The country west of the Arkansas territory is unknown to us. From what we can learn of it, we have no idea. All the inviting parts of it, as we believe, are preoccupied by various Indian nations...They would regard us as intruders, and look upon us with an evil eye... All our neighbors, in case of our removal, though crowded into our near vicinity, would speak a language totally different from ours, and practice different customs…Were the country to which we are urged much better than it is represented to be and were it free from the objections which we have made to it, still it is not the land of our birth, nor of our affections. It contains neither the scenes of our childhood, nor the graves of our fathers.