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In 1830, the United States government adopted removal as its official policy. Read the text of the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The removal policy precipitated an acrimonious debate in the Senate. Read the speech against removal by Maine Senator Peleg Sprague.
Mar 16, 2017 · The first major step to relocate American Indians came when Congress passed, and President Andrew Jackson signed, the Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1830. It authorized the President to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River.
May 23, 2023 · On May 28, 1830, Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act. This act forced nearly 100,000 Native Americans to relocate from their ancestral homelands east of the Mississippi...
Introduction. Tell the students that they will be learning what President Andrew Jackson said about the Indian Removal Act in his 1830 message to Congress by reading and understanding Jackson’s own words. Resist the temptation to put the statement into too much context.
Jan 22, 2019 · The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
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Twenty years later, President Andrew Jackson decided to push for the Indian Removal Act. Passed in 1830, the act allowed the U.S. government to move Indian tribes in the East to lands west of the Mississippi. Indian leaders were pressured to sign treaties that would give up ancestral lands in exchange for much smaller parcels in the West.
