Question

Select the correct answer.

What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
A.
a law to force the southeastern American Indians from their ancestral homelands
B.
a law to establish an effective writing system for American Indians
C.
a law to relocate western American Indians to urban regions of the United States
D.
a law to restrict American Indians from settling in the regions occupied by white Americans

Answer 1

To achieve his purpose, Jackson encouraged Congress to adopt the Removal Act of 1830. The Act established a process whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands.

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