he believed that the government had the power to tell native Americans where they could live
Andrew Jackson
to federal land west of the Mississippi , mostly to Arkansas. Other forced migration which happened after Jackson left office moved Indians into Oklahoma.
The Native Americans were forced to move west of the Mississippi River.
In 1830, President Jackson convinced Congress to pass legislation that forced Native Americans to relocate west of the Mississippi and opened up about 100 million acres of land for white settlers.
the Indian Removal Act
When the Europeans arrived, thousands of Native Americans died of smallpox. Not only that, but Europeans slaughtered thousands of Natives under the order of President Andrew Jackson. The surviving Native Americans were forced on to reservations.
its called "forced relocation and genocide" after we killed the native americans... retard!
The Indian Removal Act did not state that the Indian Had to go west of the Mississippi. The Act actually gave the President the right to negotiate with the tribes their removal to west of the mississippi. The tribes would first have to agree to this. Jackson broke this law and forced the removal of several tribes.
The US forced Native Americans to live on reservations.
Andrew Jackson. He signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which authorized the forced removal of Native American tribes, primarily the Cherokee, from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to territories west of the Mississippi River. This resulted in the Trail of Tears, a tragic and deadly journey for many Native Americans.
the native Americans were forced west and just wanted to protect there land.