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Question 3(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) Read the passage below. Then answer the question that follows using information and evidence from the text. May 28, 1830 Chapter CXLVIII An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into a suitable number of districts, for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there; and to cause each of said districts to be so described by natural or artificial marks, as to be easily distinguished from every other ... What is the main idea of this document?

Answer 1

(C) The U.S. government sets aside lands as reservations for Native Americans.

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Answer 2

The main idea of this document is that the United States government sets aside lands as reservations for Native Americans since the Native Americans were forced from their traditional lands onto reservations.

The act where Native Americans were forced out of their lands is inhuman.