What did the Indian Removal Act authorize the President to do
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The law authorized the president to negotiate with Indian tribes in the Southern United States for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their ancestral homelands.
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The Indian Removal Act was approved into legislation by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, commissioning the president to adjust with southerly Native American tribes for their departure to national territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for the white establishment of their hereditary lands. The act has been attributed to as a unitary act of methodical genocide, because it absolutely distinguished against an ethnic association, to the point of death of large numbers of its inhabitants.
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