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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...
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    to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which many scholars have labeled a genocide. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, the key...
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    newly designated Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River after the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. The Cherokee removal in 1838 was the...
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    under pressure by settlers in many regions to expel Indians from their areas. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 stated the "authorizing of the President to...
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    1828, defeating Adams in a landslide. In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act. This act, which has been described as ethnic cleansing, displaced tens...
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    for Indians in the territory of the present United States." The United States put forward another act when "Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830"...
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    19th-century policy of Indian removal. After the American Civil War (1861–1865), the policy of the U.S. government was one of assimilation. Indian Territory later...
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    after the Indian removals of most members of the Five Civilized Tribes. In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, a...
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    Indian removals in Indiana followed a series of the land cession treaties made between 1795 and 1846 that led to the removal of most of the native tribes...
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    and activist for the rights of American Indians in the United States, and a leading opponent of the Indian removal policy of the United States government...
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