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Post  lynk2510 Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:44 pm

President to propose the idea of a formal Indian Removal plan.[128][129] Andrew Jackson is often erroneously credited with initiating Indian Removal, because Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 during his presidency. He was in favor of this policy as well and gained legislative support for it. In addition he was involved in the extermination and forceful removal of many Eastern tribes.[128] Jefferson had laid out an approach to Indian removal in a series of private letters that began in 1803 (for example, see letter to William Henry Harrison below).[128]
Between 1776 and 1779, Jefferson recommended forcing the Cherokee and Shawnee tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River.[128] His first such act as president, was to make a deal with the state of Georgia: if Georgia were to release its legal claims to discovery in lands to its west, the U.S. military would help forcefully expel the Chero

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