Question

Read the following excerpt from Andrew Jackson's Speech on Indian Removal:

Answer 1

Answer: C. He concludes that American Indians hold the same views as whites about settling in a new land.

In this excerpt, Jackson discusses Indian removal. He argues that the displacement of Indigenous people is not different to the migrations of Europeans coming to America. These immigrants also say goodbye to the land of their birth, culture, family and friends, and no one wept for them.

This is an example of a hasty generalization because Jackson ignores the characteristics that make the two cases different. For example, indigenous people do not have the same ideas about migration as white settlers. Moreover, they are not migrating voluntarily, but are being forcibly removed. Finally, while settlers hoped for a better life in America, Native Americans were usually in a worse situation after removal than before.

Answer 2

The correct answer is C