Removal
Thursday, May 29, 2008 ·
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On this day in 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, a vaguely written piece of legislation later used as a pretext by state and federal authorities to dispossess the few remaining tribes in the southeastern United States — “removing” them to lands west of the Mississippi.
Read more about one of the many chapters of American imperialism at The Edge of the American West.
