The Indian Removal Act, signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, became for American Indians one of the most detrimental laws in U.S. history. Nation to Nation looks at Removal’s historic and legal ...

This time they based their appeal on an 1830 Georgia law which prohibited whites from living on Indian territory after March 31, 1831, without a license from the state. The state legislature had ...

The Removal Act of 1830 guaranteed the Indians lands in the west, but these promises were later broken. When Mexico encouraged settlers to come to its territory of Texas, many Americans brought ...