Exit 10/16

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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?

Native Americans could farm successfully in competition with United States citizens.

B Native Americans lived in great numbers in areas desirable to United States citizens.

C Native American culture was inferior to the culture of United States citizens.

D Native American civilization represented a threat to United States citizens.