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Please use the following passage and painting to answer questions 20 and 21. The following is an excerpt from "On Indian Removal," by President Andrew Jackson (1830). "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 embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion? . . . The tribes which occupied the countries not constituting the Eastern States were annihilated or have melted away to make room for the whites. The waves of population and civilization are rolling to the westward, and we now propose to acquire the countries occupied by the red men of the South and West by a fair exchange, and, at the expense of the United States, to send them to land where their existence may be prolonged and perhaps made perpetual." The painting attached is named American Progress, by John Gast (1872).21. In today's society, how would the concept ofAmerican Progress and President AndrewJackson's removal plan be seen?a. as an infringement on the rights ofindividualsb. as valid and necessary for the reclamation ofneeded farmlandc. as a removal of foreign peoples fromAmerican soild. as an infringement on the rights of the states

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