Significance of the Indian removal act?

Answer 1

The Indian Removal Act was the effort of the US Government to take over Indian owned lands in the South. Mostly in Mississippi. The tribes removed from their land were the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Cherokee and Creek. The removal of the Five Civilized Tribes is called the Trail of Tears. These tribes were relocated to Oklahoma.

Answer 2

The Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830, and it authorized the Native Americans located east of the Mississippi to be moved out west so the US could take their ancestral homelands. The importance of this act is that it was one of the cruelest, most racist pieces of legislation ever passed in the US, up to that point.

Answer 3

The Indian Removal Act was designed to relocate Native American tribes living east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river by trading their lands in the east for land in the west. The main purpose of the Indian Removal Act was to gain more land for white Americans and to move all Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River. The act was also intended to encourage the civilization of the Native Americans, "to cast off their savage habits and become an interesting, civilized, and christian community."

Answer 4

It forced Native Americans from areas where they had lived for hundreds of years. Nova Net

Answer 5

because Andrew Jackson believed like many Americansthat it was the united state's destiny to move west all the way until they got to the Pacific Ocean.Basicly to conquer the west.

Answer 6

Forced removal.