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"Our children by thousands yearly leave the land of their birth to seek new homes in distant regions."
"Our children by thousands yearly leave the land of their birth to seek new homes in distant regions."
"What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms...?"
"What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms...?"
"The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States, to individual States, and to the Indians themselves."
"The consequences of a speedy removal will be important to the United States, to individual States, and to the Indians themselves."
"Does Humanity weep at these painful separations from everything, animate and inanimate, with which the young heart has become entwined?"
"Does Humanity weep at these painful separations from everything, animate and inanimate, with which the young heart has become entwined?"
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The sentence that shows the most bias is:
"What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms...?"
This statement reflects a clear bias against Indigenous peoples, referring to them derogatorily as "savages" and positioning the expansion of American civilization as inherently superior.
