Thomas Jefferson’s policy to assimilate American Indians

Thomas Jefferson’s policy to assimilate American Indians in the 1780s with Andrew Jackson’s policy of removing Cherokees to west of the Mississippi in the 1830s

What are some ways that race has been used to rationalize inequality?How has race been used to shift attention (and responsibility) away from oppressors and

toward the targets of Oppression?

• Why was it not slavery but freedom and the notion that “all men are created equal” that
• created a moral contradiction in colonial America, and how did race help resolve that
• contradiction?

• Contrast Thomas Jefferson’s policy to assimilate American Indians in the 1780s with
• Andrew Jackson’s policy of removing Cherokees to west of the Mississippi in the 1830s:
• A. What is common to both policies?
• B. What differentiate Jefferson from Jackson?