Which of the following things did Andrew Jackson NOT say about the Indians in his first annual message to Congress?
a) It would be "cruel and unjust" to compel the Indians to abandon their native homes.
b) Indians should not be allowed to retain vast amounts of tribal land "merely because they had seen them from a mountain or passed them in the chase."
c) Indians who stayed on their own lands would "ere long become merged in the mass of our population."
d) Whites should be allowed to possess Indian lands because "they were superior in civilization and therefore superior in rights."
e) Contact with whites inevitably doomed them to "weakness and decay."
d
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