Select the correct answer.
Read this excerpt from President Andrew Jackson's 1830 Message to Congress, "On Indian Removal." Then answer the question that follows.
The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States, to individual States, and to the Indians themselves ... By
opening the whole territory between Tennessee on the north and Louisiana on the south to the settlement of the whites It will incalculably
strengthen the southwestern frontier and render the adjacent States strong enough to repel future Invasions without remote ald. It will
relieve the whole State of Mississippi and the western part of Alabama of Indian occupancy, and enable those states to advance rapidly in
population, wealth, and power.
According to this speech, how does Andrew Jackson think removal will benefit the United States?
O A. He thinks removal will help the spread of slavery to former Indian territories.
B. He thinks removal will help the Indians become loyal citizens of the United States.
OC. He thinks removal will help create stronger national boundaries on the frontier.
OD. He thinks removal will help foreign nations increase trade with the United States.