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
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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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