USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Beginning in 1803, Jefferson’s private letters show increasing support for the idea of removal, and he suggested various ideas for removing tribes from enclaves in the East to their own new lands in lands west of the Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.

Detailed explanation-3: -Indian Removal Act: (1830) passed by Congress during President Andrew Jackson’s administration, the law authorized the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi River to American Indians in exchange for their ancestral homelands, which were within the existing borders of the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -The other policy–Indian removal–was first suggested by Thomas Jefferson as the only way to ensure the survival of Native American cultures. The goal of this policy was to encourage the voluntary migration of Indians westward to tracts of land where they could live free from white harassment.