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Indian Removal Act
Two years after his election into presidency in 1828, the U.S. Congress passed Jackson's Indian removal act. This act offered Indians land west of the Mississippi in exchange for their eastern holdings. Jackson proposed a solution - the setting aside of a district west of the Mississippi "to be guaranteed to the Indian tribes as long as they shall occupy it." Takaki continues to explain: beyond the borders of white society, Indians would be free to live in peace and to have their own governments "as long as the grass grows and the water runs."
Georgia was the first state to try to remove the "Five Civilized Tribes." These tribes included: The Cherokee, Creeks, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and the Seminoles. These tribes occupied land in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. The five tribes had made much progress in conforming to America's standards; wearing white clothes, housing styles, religion, centralized government, established an agricultural economy, and......

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