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In what way did president Jefferson have a misconception of how his plan to relocate Native Americans tribes would affect the native people?

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In 1830, he signed the Indian Removal Act, which gave the federal government the power to exchange Native-held land in the cotton kingdom east of the Mississippi for land to the west, in the “Indian colonization zone” that the United States had acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase.



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