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Why does jackson want the native americans to relocate west of the mississippi river?

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The relocation was done in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands

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The Indian Removal Act was signed into law on May 28, 1830 authorized the president Andrew Jackson 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.The act discriminated against an ethnic group in so far as to make certain the death of vast numbers of its population. The Act was signed by Andrew Jackson and it was strongly enforced under his administration.

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