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What were the major economic, humanitarian, political, and social arguments for and against Indian removal?

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The major arguments for indian removal were that due to an increase in cotton production because of the newly invented cotton gin farmers needed more land for their plantations which put pressure on Indian land, another argument for Indian removal was that most Americans felt that they were superior to the Indians

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