JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830
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to secure land in the southern states for white settlement
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to eliminate the possibility of the Native Americans reuniting with the British.
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to place the tribes under the control of government officials.
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to place the tribes in stockades
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jackson declared that removal would “incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier.” Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would “enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power."
Detailed explanation-2: -Jackson declared in his first annual message to Congress that removing the Indians to territory west of the Mississippi was the only way to save them. If the Indians remained in their ancestral lands, white civilization would doom them by destroying their resources.
Detailed explanation-3: -Prints and Photographs Division. 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-4: -It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation …