Congress passed the treaty in order to relocate the Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands in the west. President Jackson was supportive of a speedy removal and he felt it was important not only to the United States but to the Indians themselves.

As American settlers pushed westward, they inevitably came into conflict with Indian tribes that had long been living on the land. The Manifest Destiny of the settlers spelled the end of the Indian way of life.

Reservations destroyed the Indian way of life, because people on them were forced to become farmers. The influence of the chiefs declined, because the reservations were run by agents. The Code of Religious Offences destroyed the Native American religion, and the Dawes Act ended community ownership.

Jackson declared that removal would “incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier.” Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would “enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power.”

In 1828, Jackson was elected president. Jackson backed an Indian removal bill in Congress. Members of Congress like Davy Crockett argued that Jackson violated the Constitution by refusing to enforce treaties that guaranteed Indian land rights. But Congress passed the removal law in the spring of 1830.

What does Jackson name as the advantages of the Indian Removal Act for the United States? Native American removal would reduce conflict between the federal and state governments. It would allow white settlers to occupy more of the South and the West, presumably protecting from foreign invasion.

Explanation: The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into effect by President Jackson, which allowed Native Americans to settle in land within state borders in exchange for unsettled land west of the Mississippi. Many Native American tribes reacted peacefully, but many reacted violently.

Intrusions of land-hungry settlers, treaties with the U.S., and the Indian Removal Act (1830) resulted in the forced removal and migration of many eastern Indian nations to lands west of the Mississippi.

Eventually, president Andrew Jackson, decided to pass the Indian removal acts in 1830, which allowed him to move the Indians west. Effect: One major effect is that the Native American population severely decreased. While on the Trail of Tears, many Native Americans endured hypothermia, starvation, and sickness.

He encouraged Congress to accept and pass the Removal Act, which gave the President allowance to grant land to the Indian Tribes that agreed to give up their homelands, the biggest tribes affected were the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole.

Jackson

What did the Indian Removal Act require? It required that all Americans Indians east Mississippi River would move to lands farther west. Black Hawk’s War was the result.

Indian removal was not just a crime against humanity, it was a crime against humanity intended to abet another crime against humanity: By clearing the Cherokee from the American South, Jackson hoped to open up more land for cultivation by slave plantations.