Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South ... Indian territory. Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal.

On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized the deportation of the southeast’s Native Americans to present-day Oklahoma. The brutal process, as ...

click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

In the early 19 th century, the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Choctaw nations stood in the way of white settlement in the South ... The Indian Removal Act was passed and enforced.