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**Quiz for Document 10.4: Andrew Jackson as the Great Father (c. 1835)**

Quiz for Document 10.4: Andrew Jackson as the Great Father (c. 1835)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

1. The artist who created this cartoon in 1835 probably depicted the Native Americans as tiny in part because he wanted to indicate that they

were childlike people.

constituted a small part of the U.S. population.

admired and looked up to Andrew Jackson.

were unable to resist Jackson’s power.

2. The 1835 cartoon entitled “Andrew Jackson as the Great Father” was intended to

celebrate Jackson for his recognition that Native Americans needed care and nurturing.

demonstrate that Native Americans were clearly inferior to whites in every way.

emphasize the contradiction between Jackson’s rhetoric and his policies regarding Indians.

denigrate Jackson as a proponent of harsh violence against all Native Americans.

3. What does the publication of this cartoon suggest about Americans’ views of Andrew Jackson’s Indian policy?

Democrats gave Jackson and his Indian policy unqualified support.

Whigs were highly opposed to Andrew Jackson’s proposed Indian policy.

Americans were divided on the question of Andrew Jackson’s Indian policy.

Most Americans supported Jackson’s Indian policy, regardless of their party affiliation.

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