Andrew Jackson on Indian Removal

Glossary

• a new and extensive territory Indian Territory, in what is now Oklahoma
• afflicting causing pain
• animate living
• benevolent well meaning or kindly
• consummation completion or conclusion
• embellish to make more attractive or to add details
• facilities abilities
• General Government the federal government of the United States
• inanimate dead
• Indian occupancy the right of Native Americans to live on their lands
• liberal generous
• pecuniary related to money
• progressive advancing or improving
• red men Native Americans
• removal relocation or exile
• render provide or give
• retard slow the progress of
• 12,000,000 happy people the population of the United States in 1830