Indian Removal Act
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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States president Andrew Jackson. The law, as described by Congress, provided "for an exchange of lands with the Indians re
President Andrew Jackson called for an Indian Removal Act in his first (1829) State of the Union address.
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Indian removal
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Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern
Indian Removal Act
…of American Indians from these lands and worked toward enacting a law for "Indian removal". In the 1829 State of the Union Address, Jackson called for Indian removal. The Indian Removal Act was put in place to annex American Indian land and then transfer that ownership to Southern US states, such as Georgia. The Act…
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