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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A. True. Since they were at the height of power and ruthless, they thought they were above the law.
Answer:
B. Ford believed that pardoning Nixon would help the divided nation begin to heal.
Explanation:
This could been seen in his reference to the justifiying his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of Burdick v. United States.
<em>It is a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court decision that suggested that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that its acceptance carries a confession of guilt. Since the watergate scandal has so much divided the country, he tried to end the story by pardoning the person upon which the crime revolves around</em>
