From samuel eliot morison perspective is the legacy of columbus positive or negstive ?

americans had many intangible advantages. well since the british fought a war far from home military orders, troops, and supplies sometimes took months to reach their destinations, and the british had an extremely difficult objective. they had to persuade the americans to give up their claims of independence, americans had a grand cause: fighting for their rights, their independence and their liberty. this cause is much more just than waging a war to deny independence.

this act gave the federal government the power to relocate any native in the east to territory west of the mississippi river.