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Jackson compares the forced removal of Native Americans to the experiences of freedom-seeking early European settlers in the Thirteen Colonies. Is this a fair comparison? Why or why not?

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The comparison is somewhat fair.

Step-by-step explanation:

Freedom-seeking early Europeans went to the Thirteen Colonies in many cases because they were persecuted in Europe. This is the case for the Puritans in New England, the Hugenots and Quakers in Pennsylvania, or the German Amish and Mennonites, also in Pennsylvania.

However, they were not always obliged to abandon their homelands in the same brutal manner that the Native Americans were during the forced removal.

So the comparison is not completely unfair, but is not fully accurate either.

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