Andrew Jackson's Indian Policy

question 43

Multiple Choice

Andrew Jackson's Indian policy

• A)protected the sovereign rights of Indian nations within their own territories.
• B)openly violated Supreme Court rulings by allowing state governments to encroach on Indian land.
• C)increased the size of Indian reservations as a reward for tribal support in the War of 1812.
• D)terminated the reservations and assimilated Indians into white society.
• E)was based on the assumption that all Indians would ultimately have to be killed.

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