History

Jade Velasquez

28 September, 15:16

What is the tone of this passage from Andrew Jackson's message to

Congress?

"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 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the

blessings of liberty, civilization and religion?"

- Andrew Jackson, annual message to Congress on

December 6, 1830"

A. Hostile and argumentative

B. Cold and uncaring

C. Proud and confident

D. Pleading and insistent