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Mar 27, 2024 · Indian Removal Act (1830), first major legislative departure from the U.S. policy of officially respecting the legal and political rights of the American Indians. The act authorized the president to grant Indian tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their desirable territories within state borders.
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An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi. 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 ...
- An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi.
The Removal Act authorized the president to exchange federal territory west of the Mississippi for Indian lands within existing state borders. It also allowed the president to guarantee the Indian lands and revert them to the United States if the Indians became extinct or abandoned them.
The Indian removal was the United States government policy of ethnic cleansing through forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River —specifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma ), which many ...
- 1830–1847
- Native Americans in the eastern United States
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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was a U.S. law that forced Native American tribes to leave their lands east of the Mississippi River and move west. Learn about the background, the resistance, and the impact of this policy that led to the Trail of Tears.
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.
Nov 9, 2009 · The Trail of Tears was the forced removal of thousands of Native Americans from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory across the Mississippi River in the 1830s. It was part of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which gave the federal government the power to exchange their land for new land west of the river. The Cherokee people were among the first to resist and reject the treaty of New Echota in 1836.
