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What was the purpose of the Indian removal act of 1830

A: to grant Native Americans the permanent right to live in the Southeastern United States
B: to force Native Americans in the Southeast to move to lands west of the Mississippi River
C: to create a sovereign Native American nation west of the Mississippi River
D: to persuade the Spanish to force Native Americans to leave Florida
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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands.

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