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Why did many Americans, including Jackson, believe that Native Americans needed to be removed from their lands

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Most white Americans thought that the United States would never extend beyond the Mississippi. Removal would save Indian people from the depredations of whites, and would resettle them in an area where they could govern themselves in peace.
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