This passage is about the speech of President Jackson in Congress, where he defended the process of remorse of the Indians.
The use of the word "progessive" refers to the continuation of a process begun earlier, where the Indians were massacred and expelled from their territories to the detriment of the white man's civilization. The former president used that term as a way to slow down an attitude that today would be understood as barbarism, but one that is part of US history.
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Jefferson obtained land form France, by giving Napoleon 10 million dollars for New Orleans, which would give them control of the Mississippi River. But Napoleon needed money to fund his wars in Europe, so he asked .$15 million for all of New Orleans. And Jefferson agreed.
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