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 ...

Karen Moore stands in the crop garden on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota (November 2021 ... Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act. This act forced nearly 100,000 ...

After generations of pro-Jackson historians left out Jackson's role in American Indian removal — the forced, bloody transfer of tens of thousands of Native Americans from the South — a recent ...

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.