History of the United States I / Unit 10 USH1 1390 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jackson's Benevolent Policy
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The idea
Jackson told Congress in December eighteen thirty that it gave him pleasure to announce that the benevolent policy of the Government was approaching a happy consummation.
In practice
A removal programme described as thirty years of steady benevolence.
Where people slip
Read the vocabulary as evidence. The language of benevolence is doing the work of justification here.
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