"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?" Exceprt from "On Indian Removal."
an 1830 speech to Congress by President Andrew Jackson.
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America... that for the purpose of providing against the
further decline and final extinction of the Indian tribes... and for introducing among them the habits and arts of civilization, the President
of the United States... is hereby authorized to employ capable persons of good moral character, to instruct them in the mode of
agriculture suited to their situation; and for teaching their children in reading, writing, and arithmetic" Excerpt from "An Act Making
Provision for the Civilization of the Indian Tribes Adjoining the Frontier Settlements, 1819.
"[T]he continent is ours... all the lines from the beginning have been converging toward this nation. [W]hen the choice seed was planted
on these shores it was in reality the great stride of the human race onward. [l]t is simply the plain, sober fact that the forward thought of
the world in civilization, in government, in liberty, in education and in religion is on this continent." from The Home Missionary, 1867.
Which idea do all three statements have in common:
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a. The three statements explain why white settlers deserved land where Native Americans
had lived for centuries.
b. The three statements claim that native people had no civilization of their own
C. All three statements suggest that white settlers and missionaries are coming to the west to save the native people.
d. All three statements shows that white Americans did not consider native people to be fully human