"Be it enacted... that it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory... to be divided into a suitable number of districts, for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there." — Indian Removal Act, May 28, 1830
Implementation of this law led most directly to which event?
- Acheck_circle
The forced Cherokee migration known as the Trail of Tears
- B
The Battle of Tippecanoe
- C
The First Seminole War in Florida
- D
The Black Hawk War in Illinois
Explanation
Treaty negotiations under the Removal Act, particularly the disputed 1835 Treaty of New Echota, resulted in the forced 1838 Cherokee march westward in which thousands died.