Andrew Jackson And The Indian Removal Act

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In 1830 Andrew Jackson signed the Indian removal Act. This gave the government power to exchange native land in the east for land in the west. The land in the west was called the Indian colonization zone and was located in northeastern Oklahoma. Native Indian were tricked and agreed to travel to Oklahoma with the Treaty of New Echota. The agreement was for ceding Indian land for money. This treaty wasn’t even signed by the leaders of Cherokee nation and over 15,000 Cherokee Native Indians protested the treaty. The 15,000 that protested the treaty got ignored and in 1836 the treaty was ratified. After this happened the Native Indians had two years to voluntarily move out. Two years later only around 2,000 Cherokee Indians migrated and the remaining

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