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Indian Removal Act, (May 28, 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 (especially in the ...
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 residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal east of the river Mississippi".
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.
The Trail of Tears was the deadly route used by Native Americans when forced off their ancestral lands and into Oklahoma by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson, the Removal Act authorized the president to negotiate with Native American tribes for federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
Indian Treaties and the Removal Act of 1830. The U.S. Government used treaties as one means to displace Indians from their tribal lands, a mechanism that was strengthened with the Removal Act of 1830.
He described the 1830 Indian Removal Act as the first truly modern mass deportation and described his efforts to “reinscribe” the memory of its victims. Professor of American history at the University of Georgia Claudio Saunt spoke on the history of Indigenous deportation and its parallels to other mass deportations of the 18th and 19th ...