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Claudio saunt6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() These were the first peoples to be expelled under the 1830 law, which allowed their land to be appropriated by whites. ![]() The largely Southern-backed measure eagerly endorsed by President Andrew Jackson, who had made the “voluntary” movement of Native peoples west of the Mississippi a defining point of his candidacy, began implementation with money to remove the largely prosperous farming Choctaw of the South westward. of Georgia West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776, 2014, etc.) uses “deportation,” “expulsion,” and “extermination” as more accurate terms than “removal”-would not have happened without a law passed by Congress and approved by the executive branch, which occurred at the end of May 1830. The systematic expulsion of Native Americans-Saunt (American History/Univ. ![]() A powerful, moving argument that the state-sponsored expulsion of the 1830s was a horrendous turning point for the Indigenous peoples in the United States. ![]()
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