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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many scholars have labeled a genocide. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, the key law which authorized the removal of Native tribes, was signed into law by...
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Trail of Tears (redirect from Trail of Indian Tears)
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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Andrew Jackson (section Indian Removal Act)
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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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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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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Jeremiah Evarts (section Battle against Indian removal)
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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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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military, under the Indian Removal Act, moved the other 15,000 Cherokees to west of the Mississippi River in the late 1830s, to Indian Territory. Those Cherokees...
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