may 28, 1830 - Indian Removal Act

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The Indian Removal Act was an act passed in 1830 by congress during the Jackson Presidency that sought to get the Native Americans to migrate west so that the land that they had could use this land to build. Many of the tribes signed these treaties but the Cherokee Nation wouldn’t agree to sign it. In 1832 the Supreme Court ruled that the state of Georgia couldn’t regulate the Cherokee Nation in the case Worcester v. Georgia. But, Jackson forcibly removed the Native Americans despite this ruling, rounding up the Cherokee Indians in 1838 and forcing them westward on over an 800 mile journey on foot, where about ¼ of their people died in what is now known as the Trail of Tears.