Exit 10/16

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 twelve millions of happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?

—President Andrew Jackson on Indian removal in a speech to Congress, 1830

Based on the excerpt, which of these was an assumption of President Jackson?