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President Andrew Jackson calls for the decimation of Native peoples with the Indian Removal Act.

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The act establishes a process whereby the president can grant land west of the Mississippi River to Native communities that agree to give up their homelands. This is used to bribe and threaten them to give up land across the Southeast and move west. Twenty percent of Native communities die in forced marches and removals. This sets the stage for the Trail of Tears and other forced relocation marches. President Jackson encourages his troops to kill women and children in order to decimate current and future generations of Native peoples. He calls for this violence as part of maintaining the “health of the nation.”