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Which TWO of the following best identify the central ideas of this text?
A) Jefferson's primary goal is improving the welfare of Indians by helping them become farmers.
B) Jefferson believes that the only way to prevent violence against Indians is to make them into U.S. citizens.
C) Jefferson wants Indian land for the American people and believes converting Indians to farmers is the best way to get their land.
D) The best way to approach the Indians is to make them feel like friends rather than enemies.
E)The best way to approach the Indians is to make them afraid of the might of the U.S. military.
F) The best way to approach the Indians is to allow them to keep living their lives as they wish so long as they cede some of their land to settlers.
EXCERPT FROM PRESIDENT JEFFERSON'S PRIVATE LETTER TO WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, GOVERNOR OF THE INDIANA TERRITORY, February 27, 1803
But this letter being unofficial, and private, I may with safety give you a more extensive view of our policy respecting the Indians... [The] system is to live in perpetual peace with the Indians, to cultivate an affectionate attachment from them, by every thing just & liberal which we can [offer] them within the bounds of reason, and by giving them effectual protection against wrongs from our own people. The decrease of game rendering their subsistence by hunting insufficient, we wish to draw them to agriculture... When they withdraw themselves to the culture of a small piece of land, they will perceive how useless to them are their extensive forests, and will be willing to pare them off from time to time in exchange for necessaries for their farms & families. To promote this disposition to exchange lands which they have to spare and we want for necessaries, which have to spare and they want, we shall push our trading houses, and be glad to see the good and influential individuals among them run in debt, because we observe that when these debts get beyond what the individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by a cession of lands... In this way our settlements will gradually circumscribe and approach the Indians, and they will in time either incorporate with us as citizens of the United States or remove beyond the Mississippi. The former is certainly the termination of their history most happy for themselves. But in the whole course of this, it is essential to cultivate their love.
Answer:
D) The best way to approach the Indians is to make them feel like friends rather than enemies.
F) The best way to approach the Indians is to allow them to keep living their lives as they wish so long as they cede some of their land to settlers.
Explanation:
Jefferson´s central idea is to "cultivate" the Indian´s love, looking for a "perpetual peace" based on the premise that they exchange some of their lands for the settlers´ "necessaries", and eventually become citizens of the United States.
Of course, for Jefferson, given the case that they refuse, and decide to "remove beyond the Mississippi", the peaceful resolution becomes impossible.
