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Indian Removal Act

Indian Removal Act in U.S. history, law signed by President Andrew Jackson in 1830 providing for the general resettlement of Native Americans to lands W of the Mississippi River. From 1830 to 1840 approximately 60,000 Native Americans were forced to migrate. Of some 11,500 Cherokees moved in 1838, about 4,000 died along the way.

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Indian Removal Act a law passed on May 28, 1830, to relocate eastern Indian tribes to land west of the Mississippi. Promoted by President Andrew Jackson in order to acquire land within state borders for white settlement, it guaranteed Indian rights to western land in the Indian Territory, created by Congress in 1834. Many tribes resisted the army-enforced relocation, which resulted in incidents such as the Seminole Wars and the Trail of Tears.

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