10. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 10: The Cherokee Removal

**Quiz for Document 10.1: Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message (1830)**

Quiz for Document 10.1: Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message (1830)

Document 10.1: Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message (1830)

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Question 10.1

1. How does Andrew Jackson characterize his administration’s proposed Indian policy in comparison to that employed by previous generations of Americans?

It continues the same progressive change as past policies using a gentler process.

It is progressive for the United States but regressive for Indians.

It deviates from past American policies because it rejects the goal of assimilation.

It deviates from past American policies because it moves Indians westward.

Question 10.2

2. Jackson refuted the notion that it was unconscionable to force the Indians to leave their ancestral homelands by suggesting that

they had only occupied the lands they inhabited for a short time.

they were intellectually inferior and incapable of sentimentality.

white Americans had been leaving their homelands for generations.

their homes were largely portable and could be moved along with them.

Question 10.3

3. Andrew Jackson argues that relocating the Indians will protect them from “immediate contact with settlements of whites,” “free them from the power of the States,” and “retard the progress of decay, which is lessening their numbers.” With whom does Jackson place the blame for the conflicts he alludes to here?

State governments

The Indians themselves

White settlers

His predecessor in the White House

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