Lesson 82: The Indian Removal Act

     In order to quell oposition to federal protection of Indians, president Jackson requested that a bill be passed that allowed him to move the natives across the Mississippi.  He insisted that the land that the Indians had lived on be bought at fair prices and that the government would pay to have them moved.
 Congress passed the "Indian Removal Act" which basically made the Indians to move to what is now Oklahoma.  The removal was supposed to be voluntary, but really the Indians were forced from their homes.
 Some tribes revolted and fought bloody wars with the states, others went peaceably, and some even tried to petition the American courts to plead their case, but in the end it came to nothing and the indians were forced to move.