JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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*remained mostly in Missouri
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settled beyond the Mississippi River
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gained far more land than originally occupied
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the Southeast region of the United States (including the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among others) to the so-called Indian Territory 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 lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Between the 1830 Indian Removal Act and 1850, the U.S. government used forced treaties and/or U.S. Army action to move about 100, 000 American Indians living east of the Mississippi River, westward to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-5: -What was one result of American Indian removal for the Cherokee? The Cherokee struggled to support themselves in Indian Territory.