MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Native Americans had to sign a treaty in order to buy land.
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Native Americans had to give up land east of the Mississippi River and move west.
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Native Americans west of the Mississippi River had to trade with new settlers.
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Native Americans were required to become slaves or be killed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Introduction. 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. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The act authorized the president to grant Indian tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for their desirable territories within state borders (especially in the Southeast), from which the tribes would be removed.
Detailed explanation-3: -The goal was to remove all American Indians living in existing states and territories and send them to unsettled land in the west.
Detailed explanation-4: -Congress passed the law in 1830. Because Congress wanted to make more land in the Southeast available to white settlers, the law required Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River to move west of it.
Detailed explanation-5: -Indian Removal as an Idea Lewis Cass, for example, the governor of the Michigan Territory from 1813 to 1831, believed that removing Indians to territories west of the Mississippi River would be the only means of ensuring Native American survival during a time of encroaching American settlement.