Use the following passage from the spanish friar bartolome de las casas in 1542. it describes events in the bahama islands after the spanish conquest: "the native population, which once numbered some five hundred thousand, was wiped out by forcible expatriation to the island of hispaniola, a policy adopted by the spaniards in an endeavour to make up losses among the indigenous population of that island." bartolome de las casas, a short account of the destruction of the indies, 1542 what inference does the passage support?

This passage from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies supports the inference that Bartolomé de Las Casas, the Spanish Dominican friar who wrote it in 1542 and sent it to King Philip II of Spain in order to alert him of the atrocities that were being perpretrated in the Americas, was a fierce critic of Spanish colonialism and a supporter and protector of the Indian communities that populated that territory.

worcester v. georgia, legal case in which the u.s. supreme court on march 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on native american land. andrew jackson refused to enforce the ruling, the decision form the basis for most subsequent indian law in the united states.