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Indian Removal Act; Long title: An Act to provide 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. Enacted by: the 21st United States Congress: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 21–148: Statutes at Large: 4 Stat. 411: Legislative history
With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the U.S. Congress had given Jackson authority to negotiate removal treaties, exchanging Indian land in the East for land west of the Mississippi River. Jackson used the dispute with Georgia to put pressure on the Cherokees to sign a removal treaty.
The 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 United States to lands west of the Mississippi River—specifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which ...
The Indian Removal Act has been described as ethnic cleansing. [404] To achieve the goal of separating Native Americans from the whites, [405] coercive force such as threats and bribes were used to effect removal [406] and unauthorized military force was used when there was resistance, [233] as in the case of the Second Seminole War. [407]
Andrew Jackson came to the Presidency determined to pave the way for American settlers. In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act, by which he offered Native Americans land in unsettled areas west of the Mississippi River, in exchange for their lands in existing states.
Mississippi Democrats have filed bills to remove Confederate symbols from the state capitol and Washington D.C.
The Treaty of St. Mary's led to the removal of the Delaware, in 1820, and the remaining Kickapoo, who removed west of the Mississippi River. After the United States Congress passed the Indian Removal Act (1830), removals in Indiana became part of a larger nationwide effort that was carried out under President Andrew Jackson's administration ...
Yet progress for the removal of the symbols of hate is snail slow. Take North Carolina as an example. Seven Confederate symbols have been removed, but 173 remain.